Disbelief in Disbelief

William Blake and the Moravian Brethren

Abstract

This essay is focused on some temperamental and conceptual relations between Blake’s vision and Ludwig Zinzendorf’s theology and practice, and hopes to contribute, however modestly, to the clarification of the question of how much Blake’s hypothetical contacts with the Moravian Church may alter his position among artists and thinkers concerned with the “limits” of the Enlightenment.