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 architectural analogy for literary composition is common in the eighteenth century and also informs Swedenborg's notion of heaven as a house of many mansions . Thus we have chapters of a highly analytic character , each contributing ...
The architectural analogy for literary composition is common in the eighteenth century and also informs Swedenborg's notion of heaven as a house of many mansions . Thus we have chapters of a highly analytic character , each contributing ...
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He tells us that God is the Lord of heaven and of hell ; that all visible and physical things correspond to or reflect divine ideas ; that man will inhabit heaven or hell according to whether he puts divine love or self - love first ...
He tells us that God is the Lord of heaven and of hell ; that all visible and physical things correspond to or reflect divine ideas ; that man will inhabit heaven or hell according to whether he puts divine love or self - love first ...
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In Heaven and Hell we have an eighteenth - century built and ordered structure in both the book and the worlds it describes , combined with a ' Romantic ' organicism whereby heaven is seen to exist in the human form .
In Heaven and Hell we have an eighteenth - century built and ordered structure in both the book and the worlds it describes , combined with a ' Romantic ' organicism whereby heaven is seen to exist in the human form .
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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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