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 stress is on the 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 ...
The stress is on the 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 ...
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They debate issues , where the later poets more often relay experiences . The fantasy they use in their poems is a means to an end rather than the end ... But this experience , far from being the sort that could make the vision of ...
They debate issues , where the later poets more often relay experiences . The fantasy they use in their poems is a means to an end rather than the end ... But this experience , far from being the sort that could make the vision of ...
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So much is this the case that in his life and work both he seems to have been engaged on a kind of continuous mystical experience . Kingsley and MacDonald also had a sense of divine immanence , but for Kingsley this immanence was ...
So much is this the case that in his life and work both he seems to have been engaged on a kind of continuous mystical experience . Kingsley and MacDonald also had a sense of divine immanence , but for Kingsley this immanence was ...
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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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