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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... experience of hinted bliss . The news comes from a far country , but the heart feels kinship with it as with nothing else . The news is sudden , like all news , as first described ; then we learn that it is recurrent - ' ' Twas wont ...
... experience of hinted bliss . The news comes from a far country , but the heart feels kinship with it as with nothing else . The news is sudden , like all news , as first described ; then we learn that it is recurrent - ' ' Twas wont ...
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... experience . But this experience , far from being the sort that could make the vision of a Dante universally relevant and applicable , must now be individual and idiosyncratic , even bizarre - the sudden presence of a strange image that ...
... experience . But this experience , far from being the sort that could make the vision of a Dante universally relevant and applicable , must now be individual and idiosyncratic , even bizarre - the sudden presence of a strange image that ...
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... experience in Fear and Trembling ) . For Williams the cosmic news is good , and its mysteries benign . How much that is a product of an assurance untried , how much of a need for an optimistic faith , cannot be judged . But in effect it ...
... experience in Fear and Trembling ) . For Williams the cosmic news is good , and its mysteries benign . How much that is a product of an assurance untried , how much of a need for an optimistic faith , cannot be judged . But in effect it ...
Contents
The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
Copyright | |
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