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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For one thing they express the incapacity of language and imagination to capture the Heavens in solid images , as Dante ... Finally , the mode of the Paradiso expresses a sense of the utter transcendence of God , beyond all our ...
For one thing they express the incapacity of language and imagination to capture the Heavens in solid images , as Dante ... Finally , the mode of the Paradiso expresses a sense of the utter transcendence of God , beyond all our ...
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Lester's charity to Evelyn expresses itself once in a vague idea of giving her ' a drink , a cup of tea or a sherry or a glass of water – something of that material and liquid joy ' ( p . 164 ) . The Clerk knows nothing of the lake from ...
Lester's charity to Evelyn expresses itself once in a vague idea of giving her ' a drink , a cup of tea or a sherry or a glass of water – something of that material and liquid joy ' ( p . 164 ) . The Clerk knows nothing of the lake from ...
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and its permeability to the great lion Aslan , that too is an image of the desirable , however subject to mortality it may be : here as with Mars we feel the wonder of a created world in so far as it expresses the craftsmanship or ...
and its permeability to the great lion Aslan , that too is an image of the desirable , however subject to mortality it may be : here as with Mars we feel the wonder of a created world in so far as it expresses the craftsmanship or ...
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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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