The Christian Project of the Personalâ€"The thematic of pragmatological
             Some of the greatest literary manifestations of the Christian message
             in the Western tradition can be found in the gospel narratives themselves,
             Dante's "Divine Comedy," and Milton's "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise
             Regained." Although all of these literary and spiritual works come from
             different nations, times, and different theological aspects of the
             Christian tradition, all show the increasing emphasis on the individual
             person (and persona) within the Christian tradition, as opposed to epic,
             nationalistic struggles of heroism that places their emphasis on the nation-
             state rather than on the individual soul.
             Jesus offered a radical reinterpretation of the Hebraic tradition,
             whereby Mosaic Law in the context of the nation-state of Israel was
             overridden by an emphasis on the individual pursuit and perfection of the
             internal life of the soul. Dante created, out of his own personal
             struggles with his soul and the familial struggles within the Italian
             nation state, an entire personal and temporal cosmology of hell, purgatory,
             and paradise. Milton transposed the Adam and Eve narrative of fall and
             redemption into a personalized struggle of Satan to achieve a sense of
             autonomy and understanding in a God-dominated world. Likewise, Goethe's
             Faust in this "personificational" history of the Christian heritage
             attempts to create, by understanding and expanding upon his self-knowledge,
             a new cosmology of the individual pursuit of intellectual excellence in the
             context of the late European Renaissance and early Romantic tradition.
             Like Milton's Satan, Goethe's Faust is angered by a world that would
             deny him the full extent of his intellectual expression. Milton's Satan is
             angry as an angel that he, as a person' or an angel, is denied the full
             power and scope of God. Faust wishes, no
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