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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... justify ' in Milton's line is indeed an extraordinary instance of such arrogance in the etymolo- gical sense , because in the seventeenth century the word was normally used in an exactly opposite manner : we do not justify God ; he ...
... justify ' in Milton's line is indeed an extraordinary instance of such arrogance in the etymolo- gical sense , because in the seventeenth century the word was normally used in an exactly opposite manner : we do not justify God ; he ...
Page 88
... Justify not thyself before God ' , says Ecclesiasticus ( 7 : 5 ) . When God appears we cannot justify ourselves ; how much less , then , should we dream of justifying him ? Yet this is what Milton , grandly or absurdly , proposes to do ...
... Justify not thyself before God ' , says Ecclesiasticus ( 7 : 5 ) . When God appears we cannot justify ourselves ; how much less , then , should we dream of justifying him ? Yet this is what Milton , grandly or absurdly , proposes to do ...
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... justifying God , the Justifier of mankind . The word ' justify ' in Milton again and again produces a kind of explosion in the concept of origin- ative power . Take the following passage , where the tangled language deserves to be ...
... justifying God , the Justifier of mankind . The word ' justify ' in Milton again and again produces a kind of explosion in the concept of origin- ative power . Take the following passage , where the tangled language deserves to be ...
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