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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Page 133
... heaven as a house of many mansions . Thus we have chapters of a highly analytic character , each contributing one aspect of the total truth and love that makes up heaven : ' The whole heaven , viewed collectively , is in the human form ...
... heaven as a house of many mansions . Thus we have chapters of a highly analytic character , each contributing one aspect of the total truth and love that makes up heaven : ' The whole heaven , viewed collectively , is in the human form ...
Page 135
... 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 ; that there is an intermediate state ...
... 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 ; that there is an intermediate state ...
Page 139
... heaven or hell ; and in offering to the world a new church created in the heavens : in all these things Swedenborg - or God working through Swedenborg - may be seen to be as ' anthropocentric ' in tendency as he has recently been ...
... heaven or hell ; and in offering to the world a new church created in the heavens : in all these things Swedenborg - or God working through Swedenborg - may be seen to be as ' anthropocentric ' in tendency as he has recently been ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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