The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and BlakeWhat 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. |
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... Calvin , for whom everything happens by the will of God , 52 would affirm without hesitation that the second alternative is the right one . 51 In the 1604 text only ; 1616 has ' O mercy Heaven ' . The fact that the change was made ...
... Calvin , for whom everything happens by the will of God , 52 would affirm without hesitation that the second alternative is the right one . 51 In the 1604 text only ; 1616 has ' O mercy Heaven ' . The fact that the change was made ...
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... Calvin might have been wrong would have an extraordinary impact . Suddenly one is allowed to say what one had thought yet not allowed oneself to think : ' This God of Calvin is wicked ' , since ' this God ' is not after all the real one ...
... Calvin might have been wrong would have an extraordinary impact . Suddenly one is allowed to say what one had thought yet not allowed oneself to think : ' This God of Calvin is wicked ' , since ' this God ' is not after all the real one ...
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... Calvin saw the human condition as unallevi- ated blackness ; there is in his writings no redemption of evil through the principle of energy . Yet Calvinism ( against the wishes of Calvin ) lent itself to such a revision . Calvin taught ...
... Calvin saw the human condition as unallevi- ated blackness ; there is in his writings no redemption of evil through the principle of energy . Yet Calvinism ( against the wishes of Calvin ) lent itself to such a revision . Calvin taught ...
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