What 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Part I. Blake: The Son Versus the Father
- Part II. Raising the Devil: Marlowe's Doctor Faustus
- 1: Calvinists and Hermeticists
- 2: Flying Men and Gnostics
- Part III. Milton
- 1: Satan's Shield
- 2: Milton's Theodicy: The Argument from Freedom
- 3: The Garden as Maze
- 4: The Fortunate Fall
- 5: Arianism, Monism, Materialism
- 6: The Invisible Christ
- 7: The Language of Trees: Unstable Mythologies
- Part IV. Blake
- 1: Godly Nudists
- 2: The Matrix of Blake's Thought
- 3: Blake and Milton
- 4: Antinomian Blake
- 5: Contraries
