Talk:De Doctrina Christiana (Milton)

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Did you know... that De Doctrina Christiana, identified as John Milton's attempt to define his own particular Christian theology, was suppressed by the government of the day and not published until 150 years after his death?

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Suggestions;

The best title: De Doctrina Christiana (Milton), since this is the title of the ms.
"currently two translations of the work; Charles R. Sumner's and John Carey's." Put each title, place and date in separate footnotes.
"The only edition of Christian Doctrine" The only manuscript. "Edition" in this context would signify a printed edition.
"London's Old State Paper Office" Unidentifiable under this name.
"Secretary of Foreign Tongues" to the Council of State
"theological "tracate"" Possibly so in original. "Tractate" intended.
"in 1677 he was pressured by the British government" In 1677 there was only an English government and a Scottish one.
"there is a minority line of criticism that seeks" A minority line is unlikely to be doing the seeking.
"he believed that there was a "progress" to relying on the Bible completely." We understand that Milton has used "progress" in some context concerning scriptural authority, but no inmformation is transferred.

These points needn't be debated: they can be edited in or ignored. --Wetman (talk) 23:06, 5 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Help![edit]

This is a plea for advice on how to prevent this article from continuing to show up on my watchlist. I have already removed the article -- under its current title -- from my watchlist ; but, apparently because I edited the article when it was under a former title (with different capitalization), it keeps showing up in, and dominating displays of, changes to articles on my watchlist.

One other factor may have complicated things. I was in the process of fixing some spelling mistakes when someone else changed the name of the article "underfoot" as it were. When I tried to save the spelling fixes, the attempt failed, reporting that someone else had been editing "underfoot" (can't remember if that was the exact word used).

I can't access the article under the name I edited it under, because a redirection forces display of the article under the new name. At least, I don't know how to access it under the old name.

Any advice or help in fixing this will be appreciated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Publius3 (talk • contribs) 03:47, 11 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So where is the MS now??[edit]

The National Archives? Johnbod (talk) 15:43, 8 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]