The Alternative Trinity Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake
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The Alternative Trinity Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake Description
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.
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| OPC | PDHSFMG |
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| Codes | 019818462X (ISBN-10) |
| 9780198184621 (ISBN) |
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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 have thought that God the Father was a jealous tyrant because he forbade Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge and that the serpent who led the way to the Tree of Knowledge was really Christ. This book explores the possibility of an underground `perennial heresy' linking the Ophites to Blake. The `alternative Trinity' is intermittently visible in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and even in Milton's Paradise Lost. Blake's notorious detection of a pro-Satan anti-poem latent in this `theologically patriarchal' epic is less capricious better grounded historically and philosophically than is commonly realised.
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- ISBN The Alternative Trinity ( Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe Milton and Blake ) book English Paperback 296 pages
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| Language version | English |
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| Release date (DD/MM/YYYY) | 30/07/1998 |
| Number of pages | 296 pages |
| Written by | The late A. D. Nuttall |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Suggested gender | Any gender |
| International Standard Book Number (ISBN) | 9780198184621 |
| Book cover type | Paperback |
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