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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... divine presence into the universe . This modern fantasy is much more determinedly ' immanentist ' : it finds God in nature or in certain images , whether the ' image of the city ' or of ' the body ' as Charles Williams conceives them ...
... divine presence into the universe . This modern fantasy is much more determinedly ' immanentist ' : it finds God in nature or in certain images , whether the ' image of the city ' or of ' the body ' as Charles Williams conceives them ...
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... divine nature and source . It confronts life in all its obstinate corruption , pain and sheer banality , to find that which transcends them ; but it suggests that such a confrontation is the only route to the divine . The search , of ...
... divine nature and source . It confronts life in all its obstinate corruption , pain and sheer banality , to find that which transcends them ; but it suggests that such a confrontation is the only route to the divine . The search , of ...
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... divine theme and pagan images ' . On his debt to Virgil for his ' strong story - line ' and his ' grandiose and glowing images ' see also pp . 421-2 . - In common with his contemporaries Dante approached the Aeneid as a work to be ...
... divine theme and pagan images ' . On his debt to Virgil for his ' strong story - line ' and his ' grandiose and glowing images ' see also pp . 421-2 . - In common with his contemporaries Dante approached the Aeneid as a work to be ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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