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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... original historical sequence . So with Gnosticism : one senses that the drive to nest story within story ( all set before the creation of the world ) can hardly give those of us who live in this world anything we can make use of , or ...
... original historical sequence . So with Gnosticism : one senses that the drive to nest story within story ( all set before the creation of the world ) can hardly give those of us who live in this world anything we can make use of , or ...
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... original creation . Milton turns this ontology to poetic account when he says of Satan that his form had not yet lost All her original brightness ( i . 591-2 ) Here , however , the terms of the old ontology are reversed : the highest ...
... original creation . Milton turns this ontology to poetic account when he says of Satan that his form had not yet lost All her original brightness ( i . 591-2 ) Here , however , the terms of the old ontology are reversed : the highest ...
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... original Zion , the Holy Land : ' All things Begin & End in Albion's Ancient Druid Rocky Shore ' ( Jerusalem , Plate 27 , E , p . 169 ) . Albion's history , he affirmed , ' Preceded that of the Hebrews ' ( A Vision of the Last Judgment ...
... original Zion , the Holy Land : ' All things Begin & End in Albion's Ancient Druid Rocky Shore ' ( Jerusalem , Plate 27 , E , p . 169 ) . Albion's history , he affirmed , ' Preceded that of the Hebrews ' ( A Vision of the Last Judgment ...
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