The Revolutionary Vision of William Blake
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14760689 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas J J Altizer (Verizon (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 33-38 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2008.00374.x |
| OpenAlex | W1991599487 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
It was William Blake's insight that the Christian churches, by inverting the Incarnation and the dialectical vision of Paul, have repressed the body, divided God from creation, substituted judgment for grace, and repudiated imagination, compassion, and the original apocalyptic faith of early Christianity. Blake's prophetic poetry thus contributes to the renewal of Christian ethics by a process of subversion and negation of Christian moral, ecclesiastical, and theological traditions, which are recognized precisely as inversions of Jesus, and therefore as instances of the forms of evil that God‐in‐Christ overcomes through Incarnation, reversing the Fall. Blake's great epic poems, particularly Milton (1804–08) and Jerusalem (1804–20), embody his heterodox representation of the final coincidence of Christ and Satan through which, at last, all things are made new
Art · Christianity · Christology · Compassion · Dialectic · Faith · Incarnation · Literature · Negation · Poetry · Representation (politics · Subversion · Theology · Law · Moravian Church and William Blake · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |