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1 online resource (1 volume) |
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CONTENTS; LIST OF PLATES; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; I: BLAKE: THE SON VERSUS THE FATHER; II: RAISING THE DEVIL: MARLOWE'S DOCTOR FAUSTUS; III: MILTON; IV: BLAKE; INDEX |
| Summary |
What if the creator of the world were evil? What if Christ, the Son, were the antagonist not 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. - ;The Trinity of orthodox Christianity is harmonious. The Trinity for Blake is, conspicuously, not a happy family: the Father and the Son do not get on. It might be thought that so cumbersome a notion is inconceivable before the rise of Romanticism but the Ophite Gnostics of the second century AD appear to |
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Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon, 1998 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 -- Religion
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Religion
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Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Religion
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Blake, William, 1757-1827 fast |
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Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 fast |
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Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast |
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Christian heresies in literature.
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Gnosticism in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Christian heresies in literature
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Gnosticism in literature
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Religion
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781429469968 |
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142946996X |
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9780191518577 |
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0191518573 |
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9780199213160 |
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019921316X |
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