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Despite John Milton’s explicit Puritan attack against both the Catholic
doctrine of the eucharist and the piety that would turn the communion table
into an "altar" for sacrifice, Milton’s poetry is deeply engaged with
aspects of the logic of transubstantiation--in innovative ways. This
does not render him a sympathizer to Catholics--far from it--but it does
betray a longing to understand substance as divinized, one shared by many
Reformers.
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