Table of Contents:
  • Shame, guilt, and moral character in early modern English protestant theology and Sir Philip Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
  • The three orders of nature, grace, and law in Edmund Spenser's The faerie queene, book II
  • Conformist and puritan moral theory : from Richard Hooker's natural law theory to Richard Sibbes's ethical occasionalism
  • The elect body in pain : Godly fear and sanctification in John Donne's poetry and prose
  • Absent neighbors in George Herbert's "The church," or why Agape becomes Caritas in English Protestant devotional poetry
  • Moral pragmatism in the theology of John Milton and his contemporaries.