Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentThis is the first account of invented stories involving the Christian supernatural. In their development a central concern is found to be the fantasy-making human imagination itself, at first seen as a obstacle to Christian purpose, but more recently given freer rein. |
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At the literal level in The Pilgrim's Progress Christian goes on an actual journey , away from one city and through a dangerous landscape towards another . At the allegorical level he may not physically have left the City of Destruction ...
At the literal level in The Pilgrim's Progress Christian goes on an actual journey , away from one city and through a dangerous landscape towards another . At the allegorical level he may not physically have left the City of Destruction ...
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Any one who reads these words understands them merely according to the sense of the letter , according to which the visible heaven and earth are to perish , a new heaven is to exist , and the holy city Jerusalem with all its dimensions ...
Any one who reads these words understands them merely according to the sense of the letter , according to which the visible heaven and earth are to perish , a new heaven is to exist , and the holy city Jerusalem with all its dimensions ...
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Williams , ' The Cross ' , in The Image of the City , p . 138. See also Robert C. Holder , ' Art and the Artist in the Fiction of Charles Williams ' , Renascence , 27 ( Winter , 1975 ) 81-7 . Williams , All Hallows ' Eve , p . 232.
Williams , ' The Cross ' , in The Image of the City , p . 138. See also Robert C. Holder , ' Art and the Artist in the Fiction of Charles Williams ' , Renascence , 27 ( Winter , 1975 ) 81-7 . Williams , All Hallows ' Eve , p . 232.
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The French Queste del Saint Graal 122 | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the Present |
| Author | Colin Nicholas Manlove |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0333558901, 9780333558904 |
| Length | 356 pages |
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