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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Page 44
But such severance of earth from heaven comes not just from him but from the pearl also . As Dante did in the Paradiso , but with even more rigour , the ways of heaven are separated from those of earth . The dreamer cannot understand ...
But such severance of earth from heaven comes not just from him but from the pearl also . As Dante did in the Paradiso , but with even more rigour , the ways of heaven are separated from those of earth . The dreamer cannot understand ...
Page 157
One can see the result in Victorian accounts of heaven , where heaven's ' otherness ' is lost for a conception of it as continuing and refining human joys on earth - pastoral , sexual , familial ; heaven becomes a mode of utopia rather ...
One can see the result in Victorian accounts of heaven , where heaven's ' otherness ' is lost for a conception of it as continuing and refining human joys on earth - pastoral , sexual , familial ; heaven becomes a mode of utopia rather ...
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At the time of the novel , 200 years beyond that of Valis , God has decided to return to Earth as a child , and seeds Himself in an earthwoman living on a planet far from Earth . He then enables her to return to Earth , which is now ...
At the time of the novel , 200 years beyond that of Valis , God has decided to return to Earth as a child , and seeds Himself in an earthwoman living on a planet far from Earth . He then enables her to return to Earth , which is now ...
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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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