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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the Celestial City because his hand shakes as he holds the perspective glass ; by the time he and Hopeful reach the land of Beulah , this side of the River , they are almost faint with desire . Throughout the story we are acutely aware ...
the Celestial City because his hand shakes as he holds the perspective glass ; by the time he and Hopeful reach the land of Beulah , this side of the River , they are almost faint with desire . Throughout the story we are acutely aware ...
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If MacDonald thus creates a sense of God , Christ and heaven by the manipulation of what Ernst Curtius called an ' inexpressibility topos ' , 31 we may add to that his Romantic use of the motif of desire or spiritual yearning in all his ...
If MacDonald thus creates a sense of God , Christ and heaven by the manipulation of what Ernst Curtius called an ' inexpressibility topos ' , 31 we may add to that his Romantic use of the motif of desire or spiritual yearning in all his ...
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This sense of otherness , and the spiritual desire or Sehnsucht it awakens , is one of the central threads of Lewis's experience as a Christian . It was the experience of that otherness in the form of ' holiness ' in reading MacDonald's ...
This sense of otherness , and the spiritual desire or Sehnsucht it awakens , is one of the central threads of Lewis's experience as a Christian . It was the experience of that otherness in the form of ' holiness ' in reading MacDonald's ...
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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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