William Blake's Religious Vision

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer G. Jesse is professor of philosophy and religion at Truman State University. Her specialties include faith and reason in Christian thought, Blake studies, religion and literature, religion and science, interdisciplinary theory, and liberal religious thought in America. She has published numerous articles and essays in these areas. She holds a doctorate in religion and literature from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and is past editor of the American Journal of Theology and Philosophy. Klappentext Analyzing Blake's works theologically through a wide-angled lens that encompasses the major religious movements he addressed in his art, Jesse concludes Blake was a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She argues that, once we collate the different messages he constructed for each of his target audiences, we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in character. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Introduction1. The Problem of Blake's Religion2. The "rough basement": Foundational Issues3. Urizen and Los: Diagnostic Tropes for Theological TherapyPart Two: Reason as Definitive of Religion4. Blake and Natural Religion5. Rationalist Road Signs: The Bible and Creation6. Blake and the Established Church7. Anglican Road Signs: Christology and AtonementPart Three: Reason as Destructive of Religion8. Blake and the Religious Radicals9. Radical Road Signs: Sin and the Last JudgmentPart Four: Reason as Redemptive of Religion10. Blake and the Religious Moderates11. Methodist Road Signs: Justification and SanctificationPart Five: Reading Blake Theologically12. All Religions Are One13. Whose Madness?

Klappentext

Analyzing Blake's works theologically through a wide-angled lens that encompasses the major religious movements he addressed in his art, Jesse concludes Blake was a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She argues that, once we collate the different messages he constructed for each of his target audiences, we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in character.

Inhalt

Part One: Introduction 1. The Problem of Blake's Religion 2. The "rough basement": Foundational Issues 3. Urizen and Los: Diagnostic Tropes for Theological Therapy Part Two: Reason as Definitive of Religion 4. Blake and Natural Religion 5. Rationalist Road Signs: The Bible and Creation 6. Blake and the Established Church 7. Anglican Road Signs: Christology and Atonement Part Three: Reason as Destructive of Religion 8. Blake and the Religious Radicals 9. Radical Road Signs: Sin and the Last Judgment Part Four: Reason as Redemptive of Religion 10. Blake and the Religious Moderates 11. Methodist Road Signs: Justification and Sanctification Part Five: Reading Blake Theologically 12. All Religions Are One 13. Whose Madness?