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Publication "Account Me Man": Economic Incarnation and Common Wealth in Paradise Lost(2006-05-30) Lay, ThomasRecent scholarship has considered the materialist and economic logic of Medieval Catholicism's theology of redemption, and suggested that Protestant ideology suppressed an earlier economic conceptualization of belief. In this paper, I consider John Milton's Paradise Lost, a late work in this history that, despite is Protestant authorship, offers Christian redemption in explicitly economic terms. Milton's unusually materialist theology, I argue, constituted a political challenge to the Restoration by demystifying social hierarchies and privileging wealth shared communally ˆ Commonwealth ˆ over the Satanic idolatry of kingship.