The alternative trinity

gnostic heresy in Marlowe, Milton, and Blake

1st ed

[xiv], 282 p., [4] p. of plates; Dewey classification: 820.9382; ill; Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF PLATES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- I: BLAKE: THE SON VERSUS THE FATHER -- II: RAISING THE DEVIL: MARLOWE'S DOCTOR FAUSTUS -- (i) Calvinists and Hermetists -- (ii) Flying Men and Gnostics -- III: MILTON -- (i) Satan's Shield -- (ii) Milton's Theodicy: The Argument from Freedom -- (iii) The Garden as Maze -- (iv) The Fortunate Fall -- (v) Arianism, Monism, Materialism -- (vi) The Invisible Christ -- (vii) The Language of Trees: Unstable Mythologies -- IV: BLAKE -- (i) Godly Nudists -- (ii) The Matrix of Blake's Thought -- (iii) Blake and Milton -- (iv) Antinomian Blake -- (v) Contraries -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z; Publication place: Oxford