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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12 Modern Christian Fantasy While it may fairly be supposed that God did not as Nietzsche claimed , die in the nineteenth century , it must be admitted that much of the ' mythology ' of Christianity , the supernatural stories recounted ...
12 Modern Christian Fantasy While it may fairly be supposed that God did not as Nietzsche claimed , die in the nineteenth century , it must be admitted that much of the ' mythology ' of Christianity , the supernatural stories recounted ...
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the nineteenth century had less of a firm ' mythological ' and super- natural basis than it had had at the outset . ... but also of a general shift over the centuries , through the Renaissance via the Enlightenment to Romanticism ...
the nineteenth century had less of a firm ' mythological ' and super- natural basis than it had had at the outset . ... but also of a general shift over the centuries , through the Renaissance via the Enlightenment to Romanticism ...
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See also Hans W. Frei , The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative : A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics ( New Haven , Conn . , and London : Yale University Press , 1974 ) , which particularly emphasises the sources in late ...
See also Hans W. Frei , The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative : A Study in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Hermeneutics ( New Haven , Conn . , and London : Yale University Press , 1974 ) , which particularly emphasises the sources in late ...
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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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