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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20001108
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AS MIGHT be expected, Blake's view of Christ was unconventional, from his curious belief that the Son of Man had a snub nose similar to his own ("The Vision of Christ that thou dost see/Is my Vision's Greatest Enemy/Thine has a great hook nose like thine/Mine has a snub nose like to mine..." - "The Everlasting Gospel") to his angry outburst that "Christ died as an Unbeliever".

Adequately to explain quite what Blake believed of Christ would take a lengthy volume, but he did leave one or two pithy summaries, as in his caricature of the doctrine of Atonement ("a horrible doctrine. If another ...

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