The Alternative Christianity

When I defended my dissertation several years ago, one of my committee members asked me why I chose to examine the lives and writing of some of the subjects of my study, figures deemed “fringe” by academia and the positivist hegemony from which we all (unconsciously for the most part) suffer. The subjects of my project (since then published as Literature and the Encounter with God in Post-Reformation England) included Elizabethan magus and polymath John Dee, the Catholic/Anglican poet and div...