At one level, Blake is clearly Christian. It’s even trivial to say so. And yet, his identification with Jesus is often sidelined, even written out, of accounts of the poet's work today.There are many reasons for this neglect: an understandable disillusionment with Christianity; the replacement of participative Christianity with cultural Christianity and its stress on moral law; the rise of atheism in the 19th century; the colonisation of literary studies with secular assumptions.But Blake is quite clear: without the divine vision, focused on Jesus the imagination and the centrality of the continual incarnation, the golden string he offers us today, will not lead to heaven's gate.So what type of Christianity does he champion? How does he communicated it? And why is it still so needed, 200 years on.This talk was originally given to the Blake Society.0:00 Introduction0:47 The centrality of a continual incarnation6:00 His links with Orthodoxy and mystical Christianity9:44 The place of Jesus11:31 Transfiguration as a foretaste of Eternity12:34 The divinity of the woman caught in adultery 14:36 Jesus in the poem Jerusalem16:00 "I have power to raise from death"18:50 The breath divine or Spirit in Blake19:58 Union with Jesus21:25 The purpose of forgiveness24:00 The meaning of self-annihilation27:54 Inspired by the Gita29:31 A commodious Christianity33:26 The failure of naturalism and the cosmos as a closed system38:34 The inhumanity of atheistic humanism40:33 Mystical Christianity and participation with nature44:09 Ethical Christianity divides: religion hid in war46:53 "Thy own humanity learn to adore". Restoring humanism49:18 "There is a moment in each day". Blake's apocalypse is now

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