The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and BlakeThe 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 centuryAD 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 theOphites 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 andphilosophically, than is commonly realised. |
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THE SON VERSUS THE FATHER | 4 |
MARLOWES | 22 |
MILTON | 71 |
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| Titre | The Alternative Trinity: Gnostic Heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake |
| Auteur | Anthony David Nuttall |
| Édition | illustrée, réimprimée |
| Éditeur | Clarendon Press, 1998 |
| Original provenant de | l'Université du Michigan |
| Numérisé | 7 mars 2008 |
| ISBN | 019818462X, 9780198184621 |
| Longueur | 282 pages |
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