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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No action or object is left merely itself : a tent is much more than a tent . Indeed it is mortal blindness to all but the literal or physical level of the world that is a prime source of sin in the Queste .
No action or object is left merely itself : a tent is much more than a tent . Indeed it is mortal blindness to all but the literal or physical level of the world that is a prime source of sin in the Queste .
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It is a fantasy in which a supernatural creation , a soul , is seen to shrivel and shrink before our eyes , under the direct action of its collision with divine laws it has sought to negate . Through the destruction of a perverted man ...
It is a fantasy in which a supernatural creation , a soul , is seen to shrivel and shrink before our eyes , under the direct action of its collision with divine laws it has sought to negate . Through the destruction of a perverted man ...
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Puritan thinkers before him had frequently condemned the free action of the mind and demanded that it be kept to one undeviating purpose . Writing in 1638 , Thomas Goodwin condemned that unsetled wantonnesse and unstayednesse of the ...
Puritan thinkers before him had frequently condemned the free action of the mind and demanded that it be kept to one undeviating purpose . Writing in 1638 , Thomas Goodwin condemned that unsetled wantonnesse and unstayednesse of the ...
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Contents
The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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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