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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... play is frankly- thunderously - theological . Indeed , it might be said , it would be hard to imagine a clearer case of a theocratic drama than this , in which the hero is taught the folly and wickedness of his presumption by being cast ...
... play is frankly- thunderously - theological . Indeed , it might be said , it would be hard to imagine a clearer case of a theocratic drama than this , in which the hero is taught the folly and wickedness of his presumption by being cast ...
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... play is stretched between two opposite narratives : ' Faustus is damned because he sinned ' and ' Faustus sins because he is damned.'18 Once this is noticed one begins to understand the strange energy , born of radical uncertainty ...
... play is stretched between two opposite narratives : ' Faustus is damned because he sinned ' and ' Faustus sins because he is damned.'18 Once this is noticed one begins to understand the strange energy , born of radical uncertainty ...
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... play . Philip Brockbank writes , " The play's rhetoric of wonder , space and flight may be called Simonian.'34 There are clear signs that Marlowe got hold of the Simonian material not only from the play's princi- pal source , the ...
... play . Philip Brockbank writes , " The play's rhetoric of wonder , space and flight may be called Simonian.'34 There are clear signs that Marlowe got hold of the Simonian material not only from the play's princi- pal source , the ...
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