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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Lancelot's fatherhood of Galahad is implicitly an example of God creating good out of human corruption ... various knightly participants in the Queste could be said to give a kind of spiritual cross - section of humanity , with Galahad ...
Lancelot's fatherhood of Galahad is implicitly an example of God creating good out of human corruption ... various knightly participants in the Queste could be said to give a kind of spiritual cross - section of humanity , with Galahad ...
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That heaven is from the human race is also evident from the fact that angelic minds and human minds are similar . Both enjoy the faculties of understanding , perceiving and willing , and both are formed to receive heaven ; for the human ...
That heaven is from the human race is also evident from the fact that angelic minds and human minds are similar . Both enjoy the faculties of understanding , perceiving and willing , and both are formed to receive heaven ; for the human ...
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The Overmind perceived that humanity was about to beget a super - race of children who would be of enormous ... how the previous generation of the human race dies out or , warned of the approaching end of Earth , commits suicide ...
The Overmind perceived that humanity was about to beget a super - race of children who would be of enormous ... how the previous generation of the human race dies out or , warned of the approaching end of Earth , commits suicide ...
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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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