{"id":6489,"date":"2020-11-30T11:06:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T16:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=6489"},"modified":"2020-11-30T11:07:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T16:07:01","slug":"christopher-ricks-on-milton-and-blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2020\/11\/30\/christopher-ricks-on-milton-and-blasphemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Ricks on Milton and Blasphemy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Ricks, an esteemed professor in the Editorial Institute and the Core Curriculum here at BU, recently gave a lecture to the CC201 students on Milton and Blasphemy. This lecture discusses the incredible sensitivities of the word blasphemy, what it means to blaspheme, and how anti-blasphemy laws still impact our society today. He also discusses blasphemy in conjunction with Milton&#8217;s<em>Paradise Lost<\/em>, and how the two are inextricably connected. This is exemplified in the following quote from the lecture:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now I have a general position here, which is that unless a religious work is accused in some way, is open in some way to the accusation that it is blasphemous, it won&#8217;t be a great religious work. That is, it will have &#8216;played safe&#8217; &#8212; and no great art, or great thought, or great personhood is ever achieved by playing safe&#8221; (Ricks).<\/p>\n<p>Core community members who would like to listen to the full lecture can do so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5nV6P6PaqFU\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Ricks, an esteemed professor in the Editorial Institute and the Core Curriculum here at BU, recently gave a lecture to the CC201 students on Milton and Blasphemy. This lecture discusses the incredible sensitivities of the word blasphemy, what it means to blaspheme, and how anti-blasphemy laws still impact our society today. He also discusses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,477,3857],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6490,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions\/6490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}