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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... faith . Precious little has been written about Christian literature as a form in any case : only where it can be limited to a specific area of interest , or where a marked ' craze ' for writing Christian novels occurred as in the ...
... faith . Precious little has been written about Christian literature as a form in any case : only where it can be limited to a specific area of interest , or where a marked ' craze ' for writing Christian novels occurred as in the ...
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... faith ; but Swedenborg's reasons for his approach can be seen to be quite the reverse , for it is his object to heighten the ' supernatural ' element , to reawaken man to the afterlife of heaven and hell to which he is directed . - In ...
... faith ; but Swedenborg's reasons for his approach can be seen to be quite the reverse , for it is his object to heighten the ' supernatural ' element , to reawaken man to the afterlife of heaven and hell to which he is directed . - In ...
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... faith : agnosticism , even unbelief , was to him part of the balance that made up life . In this sense nothing that happened during his life - not the First World War , not the establishment of an atheist communist state in Russia , not ...
... faith : agnosticism , even unbelief , was to him part of the balance that made up life . In this sense nothing that happened during his life - not the First World War , not the establishment of an atheist communist state in Russia , not ...
Contents
The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
Copyright | |
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