ABSTRACT
The crucial unit of Milton's own ideology to be deals with, which determines and manifests the dislocation between theological and ethical modes of thought, is the heresy of monism, Milton's radical Protestant concept of the unity of body and soul. The study of the socioeconomic transition should be complemented by a study of Protestantism as the paradoxical revolutionary agent of the co-determining ideological transition. The best case for the superior explanatory power of Marxism in dealing with this period is made by the rich literature on the economic transition to capitalism, all of which stems from and attempts to expand upon Marx's groundbreaking work in Capital. In order to understand the transition to capitalism for which the revolution at mid-century represents the single most decisive agent and point of no return, we must attempt to understand what Milton called reformation as a crucial ruptural force in that process.
