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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... Prometheus may serve as a useful indic- ator here . For Shelley Prometheus is a noble Gnostic rebel against the tyrant God ; he is both Christlike and Luciferan . Blakean readers of Paradise Lost naturally think of Milton's Satan as a ...
... Prometheus may serve as a useful indic- ator here . For Shelley Prometheus is a noble Gnostic rebel against the tyrant God ; he is both Christlike and Luciferan . Blakean readers of Paradise Lost naturally think of Milton's Satan as a ...
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... ( Prometheus ) because he carried off the heavenly torch from the axle - tree of the sun . I reckon the greater man is he who is believed to have filched from Jove his pale weaponry , his thunderflash . ] Milton is writing with the ...
... ( Prometheus ) because he carried off the heavenly torch from the axle - tree of the sun . I reckon the greater man is he who is believed to have filched from Jove his pale weaponry , his thunderflash . ] Milton is writing with the ...
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... Prometheus Unbound Jupiter is the ' Oppressor of mankind ' and Prometheus the ' Champion'.154 A Gnostic hostility to Jehovah , the Demiurge , is clear . Moreover , Christ is not immediately included in the condemnation of Deity ...
... Prometheus Unbound Jupiter is the ' Oppressor of mankind ' and Prometheus the ' Champion'.154 A Gnostic hostility to Jehovah , the Demiurge , is clear . Moreover , Christ is not immediately included in the condemnation of Deity ...
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