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 endpoint of the journey is a vision of God in which the imagination is lost – and yet found , in that only its operations over the whole journey of the poem have led us to Him.23 Further , while the journey of the imagination is ...
The endpoint of the journey is a vision of God in which the imagination is lost – and yet found , in that only its operations over the whole journey of the poem have led us to Him.23 Further , while the journey of the imagination is ...
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This may be owing to his Puritan rejection of all earthly things in their entirety , whereby here in order to read aright we have to set aside the ' physical ' journey altogether . When Charity at Palace Beautiful asks Christian whether ...
This may be owing to his Puritan rejection of all earthly things in their entirety , whereby here in order to read aright we have to set aside the ' physical ' journey altogether . When Charity at Palace Beautiful asks Christian whether ...
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For instance , because of the image of the journey , we naturally tend to think of the movement as one to greater and greater trials . However , Christian's contest with Apollyon , who is a form of the devil and thus the ultimate in ...
For instance , because of the image of the journey , we naturally tend to think of the movement as one to greater and greater trials . However , Christian's contest with Apollyon , who is a form of the devil and thus the ultimate in ...
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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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