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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... Creator is himself corrupt there is nothing puzzling in the fact that we see corrup- tion everywhere . Gnosticism is often thought of as a wildly mystical , affair but in this fundamental respect it is oddly real- istic . In the old ...
... Creator is himself corrupt there is nothing puzzling in the fact that we see corrup- tion everywhere . Gnosticism is often thought of as a wildly mystical , affair but in this fundamental respect it is oddly real- istic . In the old ...
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... creator , boasts of his supremacy and hears a voice saying ' You lie , Ialdabaoth for above thee is the father of all things , the first man and Man the Son of Man.'117 In the Apocryphon of John when Adam eats the apple he becomes aware ...
... creator , boasts of his supremacy and hears a voice saying ' You lie , Ialdabaoth for above thee is the father of all things , the first man and Man the Son of Man.'117 In the Apocryphon of John when Adam eats the apple he becomes aware ...
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... Creator but rather in a fusion of the two . On the title - page all this is strongly asserted . Bellamy cites John 1 : 1-3 , ' In the Beginning was the word , and the word was with God , and THE WORD WAS GOD - ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY ...
... Creator but rather in a fusion of the two . On the title - page all this is strongly asserted . Bellamy cites John 1 : 1-3 , ' In the Beginning was the word , and the word was with God , and THE WORD WAS GOD - ALL THINGS WERE MADE BY ...
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