The alternative trinity : gnostic heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake / A.D. Nuttall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nuttall, A. D. (Anthony David)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593--Religion.

Marlowe, Christopher.

Milton, John, 1608-1674--Religion.

Milton, John.

Blake, William, 1757-1827--Religion.

Blake, William.

Christian heresies in literature.

Gnosticism in literature.

Physical Description:

[xiv], 282 p., [4] p. of plates : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2007.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

LIST OF PLATES

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

Introduction

I: BLAKE: THE SON VERSUS THE FATHER

II: RAISING THE DEVIL: MARLOWE'S DOCTOR FAUSTUS

(i) Calvinists and Hermetists

(ii) Flying Men and Gnostics

III: MILTON

(i) Satan's Shield

(ii) Milton's Theodicy: The Argument from Freedom

(iii) The Garden as Maze

(iv) The Fortunate Fall

(v) Arianism, Monism, Materialism

(vi) The Invisible Christ

(vii) The Language of Trees: Unstable Mythologies

IV: BLAKE

(i) Godly Nudists

(ii) The Matrix of Blake's Thought

(iii) Blake and Milton

(iv) Antinomian Blake

(v) Contraries

INDEX

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M

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O

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Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780191518577

0191518573

OCLC:

137272297