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 first he thinks of Mephostophilis as some sort of a genie he has called out of a bottle , and does not believe the devil when he tells him that it was not his supposed necromantic powers that called him up Marlowe : ' Dr Faustus ...
At first he thinks of Mephostophilis as some sort of a genie he has called out of a bottle , and does not believe the devil when he tells him that it was not his supposed necromantic powers that called him up Marlowe : ' Dr Faustus ...
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Each of the stories portrays children battling against an ultimate evil , called ' It ' or ' Echthroi ' , which threatens variously their father , the world and the universe . In each case they are helped by a form of angel : in the ...
Each of the stories portrays children battling against an ultimate evil , called ' It ' or ' Echthroi ' , which threatens variously their father , the world and the universe . In each case they are helped by a form of angel : in the ...
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Roger Zelazny in ' A Rose for Ecclesiastes ' ( 1967 ) portrays the attempt of an agnostic called Gallinger to persuade the Martians out of a fatalistic self - abandonment to the ways of their god : he fails , but in so doing confirms ...
Roger Zelazny in ' A Rose for Ecclesiastes ' ( 1967 ) portrays the attempt of an agnostic called Gallinger to persuade the Martians out of a fatalistic self - abandonment to the ways of their god : he fails , but in so doing confirms ...
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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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