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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Dante of course puts us in the worlds of the afterlife , as does Pearl : both invite mortal men to direct their behaviour with regard to what will happen to them after death . That regard is basic to all Christian behaviour , but with ...
Dante of course puts us in the worlds of the afterlife , as does Pearl : both invite mortal men to direct their behaviour with regard to what will happen to them after death . That regard is basic to all Christian behaviour , but with ...
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And that he remains ignorant is sufficiently underlined by his concluding , ' As if thou'hadst seal'd my pardon , with thy blood ' , which is of course precisely what Christ has done for him . But beyond this it is possible to see the ...
And that he remains ignorant is sufficiently underlined by his concluding , ' As if thou'hadst seal'd my pardon , with thy blood ' , which is of course precisely what Christ has done for him . But beyond this it is possible to see the ...
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Tolkien , of course is not the only ' Christian fantasist ' to write obliquely : Coleridge ( from whom he drew many of his ideas on the imagination and on creation ) does it in ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ' ( 1798 ) .
Tolkien , of course is not the only ' Christian fantasist ' to write obliquely : Coleridge ( from whom he drew many of his ideas on the imagination and on creation ) does it in ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ' ( 1798 ) .
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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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