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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Page 58
... tells Elisabeth that she is to have a child and an angel tells Mary the same thing ( 1 : 5 ff . and 1 : 26 ff . ) . Later in her book Butler writes , ' It will be noticed that the wicked magician did not scruple to perform one of the ...
... tells Elisabeth that she is to have a child and an angel tells Mary the same thing ( 1 : 5 ff . and 1 : 26 ff . ) . Later in her book Butler writes , ' It will be noticed that the wicked magician did not scruple to perform one of the ...
Page 61
... tells us that Eilmer was very old in 1066. If he was in his early eighties he would have been , say , 5 in 989 , the year of the previous appearance in our skies of Halley's comet . It is not quite imposs- ible that a scientifically ...
... tells us that Eilmer was very old in 1066. If he was in his early eighties he would have been , say , 5 in 989 , the year of the previous appearance in our skies of Halley's comet . It is not quite imposs- ible that a scientifically ...
Page 117
... tells the Son how , through him , mankind shall be redeemed , receive new life ( 294-300 ) and how The world shall burn , and from her ashes spring New heaven and earth , wherein the just shall dwell , And after all their tribulations ...
... tells the Son how , through him , mankind shall be redeemed , receive new life ( 294-300 ) and how The world shall burn , and from her ashes spring New heaven and earth , wherein the just shall dwell , And after all their tribulations ...
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