The Alternative Trinity Gnostic Heresy in Marloe, Milton, and Blake [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction
Part I. Blake: The Son Versus the Father
Part II. Raising the Devil: Marlowe'sDoctor 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

Nuttall is constantly illuminating and informative. --Times Literary Supplement

Nuttall offers some engaging expositions of familiar material and some useful citations of less familiar lore. Recommended for graduate collections and research collections. --Choice