Alternative Trinity - Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake

Zusatztext Nuttall shows much learning ... Nuttall offers some engaging expositions of familiar material and some useful citations of less familiar lore. Klappentext What is the creator of the world were evil? What if Christ, the Son, were the antagonist rather than the ally of the Father? Nuttall tracks this subversive theology from the Gnostics of the second century, through its flickering reappearance in Marlowe and Milton, to its full development in Blake. Zusammenfassung What if the creator of the world were evil? What if Christ, the Son, were the antagonist not the ally of the Father? Nuttall tracks this subversive theology from the Gnostics of the second century, through its flickering reappearance in Marlowe and Milton, to its full development in Blake. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I. Blake: The Son Versus the Father Part II. Raising the Devil: Marlowe's Doctor Faustus 1: Calvinists and Hermeticists 2: Flying Men and Gnostics Part III. Milton 1: Satan's Shield 2: Milton's Theodicy: The Argument from Freedom 3: The Garden as Maze 4: The Fortunate Fall 5: Arianism, Monism, Materialism 6: The Invisible Christ 7: The Language of Trees: Unstable Mythologies Part IV. Blake 1: Godly Nudists 2: The Matrix of Blake's Thought 3: Blake and Milton 4: Antinomian Blake 5: Contraries

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• Authors: A D Nuttall, A. D. Nuttall, Late A. D. Nuttall, The late A. D. Nuttall, the Late A. D. (Formerly Professor of Eng Nuttall
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.1998
• EAN: 9780198184621
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818462-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History of Ideas, English, HISTORY / Social History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Blasphemy, Heresy & Apostasy, Christianity, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: general, British Isles, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Blasphemy, Heresy, Apostasy