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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... Gnostic shock or scandal . It is one thing to say that the serpent was seen in such and such a way by later Gnostics and another to say that the < serpent , within the text of Genesis , is Gnostic . I am certain of nothing except the ...
... Gnostic shock or scandal . It is one thing to say that the serpent was seen in such and such a way by later Gnostics and another to say that the < serpent , within the text of Genesis , is Gnostic . I am certain of nothing except the ...
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... Gnostic couple'.42 If the earlier sources are admitted to be relevant it is clear that Simon is associated with a Gnostic theology . Indeed Irenaeus said he was the first of the Gnostics.43 The position of Christ in the Gnostic ...
... Gnostic couple'.42 If the earlier sources are admitted to be relevant it is clear that Simon is associated with a Gnostic theology . Indeed Irenaeus said he was the first of the Gnostics.43 The position of Christ in the Gnostic ...
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... Gnostic Trinity the Son is superior to the Father than I had to explain that in ' deep Gnostic ' Theory there is a pleromatic true Father , to whom the Son is actually inferior , as in Christian Arian theology . I have similarly had to ...
... Gnostic Trinity the Son is superior to the Father than I had to explain that in ' deep Gnostic ' Theory there is a pleromatic true Father , to whom the Son is actually inferior , as in Christian Arian theology . I have similarly had to ...
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