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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What we do feel in Purgatory is the difficulty of the ascent ( though this is a mountain that reverses nature , in that the lower reaches feel most tiring and it becomes progressively easier to climb , despite the uniform gradient ...
What we do feel in Purgatory is the difficulty of the ascent ( though this is a mountain that reverses nature , in that the lower reaches feel most tiring and it becomes progressively easier to climb , despite the uniform gradient ...
Page 126
... meaning to the Wicket - gate , more than that we feel Christian to have been so far accepted as to gain admission to the obstacle course ; the biblical reference to Matthew 7.13 , ' Enter ye in at the strait gate ' , adds no more .
... meaning to the Wicket - gate , more than that we feel Christian to have been so far accepted as to gain admission to the obstacle course ; the biblical reference to Matthew 7.13 , ' Enter ye in at the strait gate ' , adds no more .
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Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to . An obligation to feel can freeze ...
Why did one find it so hard to feel as one was told one ought to feel about God or about the sufferings of Christ ? I thought the chief reason was that one was told one ought to . An obligation to feel can freeze ...
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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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