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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In hell . FAUSTUS . HOW comes it then that thou art out of hell ? MEPHOSTOPHILIS . Why this is hell : nor am I out of it . Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God , And tasted the eternall Joyes of heaven , Am not tormented with ...
In hell . FAUSTUS . HOW comes it then that thou art out of hell ? MEPHOSTOPHILIS . Why this is hell : nor am I out of it . Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God , And tasted the eternall Joyes of heaven , Am not tormented with ...
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Thus Satan beholds it as he pauses in the void after his long journey up from hell : Far off the empyreal heaven , extended wide In circuit , undetermined square or round , With opal towers and battlements adorned Of living sapphire ...
Thus Satan beholds it as he pauses in the void after his long journey up from hell : Far off the empyreal heaven , extended wide In circuit , undetermined square or round , With opal towers and battlements adorned Of living sapphire ...
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And yet Swedenborg's meticulous and systematic approach serves to make that vision more accessible and credible than it might otherwise have been : introducing the Everyman edition of Heaven and Hell , J. Howard Spalding is led to ask ...
And yet Swedenborg's meticulous and systematic approach serves to make that vision more accessible and credible than it might otherwise have been : introducing the Everyman edition of Heaven and Hell , J. Howard Spalding is led to ask ...
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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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