AYLI- Religion
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- Created on: 03-06-15 18:33
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- AYLI Religion
- Nature presented as better than organised religion
- 'Tongues in tress, books in the running brookes, sermons in stones and good in everything'
- Suggests that more can be learnt from nature than church/orthodox relgion
- 'Tongues in tress, books in the running brookes, sermons in stones and good in everything'
- Presents ideas that may go against the accepted religions of the time
- 'Here we shall see no enemy but winter and rough weather'
- Whereas the devil would be seen as the 'enemy' in Christianity, the only enemy in nature is the weather
- The forest as pre-lapsarian
- 'Here we feel not the penalty of Adam'
- 'Let the forest judge'
- Nature is more powerful and morally correct than humans
- Nature takes the place of God, who would be the ultimate judge in Chritianity
- Nature is more powerful and morally correct than humans
- 'The Duke hath put on a religious life'
- potential meaning of 'put on'- connotes fake, artificial
- 'Here we shall see no enemy but winter and rough weather'
- Power of religion to convert Duke Frederick
- Nature presented as better than organised religion
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