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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town , but God's own ' viceroy ' in him , his reason , has given itself away to the enemy . He wants God as his lover but has been betrothed outwith his choice to the devil . It is theologically orthodox that only God's grace may rescue ...
town , but God's own ' viceroy ' in him , his reason , has given itself away to the enemy . He wants God as his lover but has been betrothed outwith his choice to the devil . It is theologically orthodox that only God's grace may rescue ...
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His mother takes him on her lap , kisses him , and gives him a picture of God designed to console him . She tells him that , far from being a sign of his being outcast , his black skin is the mark of God's love . God lives in the sun ...
His mother takes him on her lap , kisses him , and gives him a picture of God designed to console him . She tells him that , far from being a sign of his being outcast , his black skin is the mark of God's love . God lives in the sun ...
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universe is , as the wise man says , ' A platform whereon His Eternal Spirit sports and makes melody'.14 But this still makes God the end - point of an argument , which interposes itself , like the phenomena He has supposedly made and ...
universe is , as the wise man says , ' A platform whereon His Eternal Spirit sports and makes melody'.14 But this still makes God the end - point of an argument , which interposes itself , like the phenomena He has supposedly made and ...
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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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