The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake

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Author: A.D. Nuttall

ISBN-10: 019818462X

ISBN-13: 9780198184621

Category: Drama - Literary Criticism

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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.

List of PlatesList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1IBlake: The Son Versus the Father4IIRaising the Devil: Marlowe's Doctor Faustus22iCalvinists and Hermetists22iiFlying Men and Gnostics41IIIMilton71iSatan's Shield71iiMilton's Theodicy: The Argument from Freedom86iiiThe Garden as Maze101ivThe Fortunate Fall116vArianism, Monism, Materialism136viThe Invisible Christ161viiThe Language of Trees: Unstable Mythologies171IVBlake192iGodly Nudists192iiThe Matrix of Blake's Thought200iiiBlake and Milton224ivAntinomian Blake239vContraries257Index273