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William Blake’s Religious Vision William Blake’s Religious Vision There’s a Methodism in His Madness Jennifer G. Jesse LEXINGTONBOOKS Lanham•Boulder •NewYork•Toronto•Plymouth,UK PublishedbyLexingtonBooks AwhollyownedsubsidiaryofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com 10ThornburyRoad,PlymouthPL67PP,UnitedKingdom Copyright©2013byLexingtonBooks Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Jesse,JenniferG. WilliamBlake'sreligiousvision:there'samethodisminhismadness/JenniferG.Jesse. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-7391-7790-7(cloth:alk.paper)--ISBN978-0-7391-7791-4(electronic) 1.Blake,William,1757-1827--Criticismandinterpretation.2.Blake,William,1757-1827--Religion. I.Title. PR4148.R4J472012 821'.7--dc23 2012038438 ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Inmemoryofmyfather DonaldC.Gonder Contents ListofFigures ix Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xiii I:Introduction 1 TheProblemofBlake’sReligion 3 2 The“RoughBasement”:FoundationalIssues 23 3 UrizenandLos:DiagnosticTropesforTheologicalTherapy 51 II:ReasonasDefinitiveofReligion 4 BlakeandNaturalReligion 69 5 RationalistRoadSigns:TheBibleandCreation 83 6 BlakeandtheEstablishedChurch 99 7 AnglicanRoadSigns:ChristologyandAtonement 109 III:ReasonasDestructiveofReligion 8 BlakeandtheReligiousRadicals 129 9 RadicalRoadSigns:SinandtheLastJudgment 153 IV:ReasonasRedemptiveofReligion 10 BlakeandtheReligiousModerates 185 11 MethodistRoadSigns:JustificationandSanctification 215 vii viii Contents V:ReadingBlakeTheologically 12 AllReligionsAreOne 247 13 WhoseMadness? 269 Bibliography 277 AuthorIndex 289 SubjectIndex 293 AbouttheAuthor 297
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