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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... hell : Far off the empyreal heaven , extended wide In circuit , undetermined square or round , With opal towers and ... hell at the bottom , and in between , before the new creation , the abyss of chaos . The creation of the world drives ...
... hell : Far off the empyreal heaven , extended wide In circuit , undetermined square or round , With opal towers and ... hell at the bottom , and in between , before the new creation , the abyss of chaos . The creation of the world drives ...
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... Hell , J. Howard Spalding is led to ask , ' Is it possible that hallucination could give rise to a system so complete and harmonious ? ' 8 In Heaven and Hell we have an eighteenth - century built and ordered structure in both the book ...
... Hell , J. Howard Spalding is led to ask , ' Is it possible that hallucination could give rise to a system so complete and harmonious ? ' 8 In Heaven and Hell we have an eighteenth - century built and ordered structure in both the book ...
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... Hell of how human spirits choose rather than are condemned to hell – strangely , given that both works are said to come from a similar supernatural source . At any rate , three of Swedenborg's works written in 1757 ( and published in ...
... Hell of how human spirits choose rather than are condemned to hell – strangely , given that both works are said to come from a similar supernatural source . At any rate , three of Swedenborg's works written in 1757 ( and published in ...
Contents
The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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