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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... or where a marked ' craze ' for writing Christian novels occurred as in the nineteenth century , are there books ... Margaret M. Maison's Search Your Soul , Eustace : A Survey of the Religious Novel in the Victorian Age ( 1961 ) ...
... or where a marked ' craze ' for writing Christian novels occurred as in the nineteenth century , are there books ... Margaret M. Maison's Search Your Soul , Eustace : A Survey of the Religious Novel in the Victorian Age ( 1961 ) ...
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be partial , no sooner glimpsed than left.10 The total effect of Bulgakov's novel is one of enormous zest and wonder , a spiritual shaking- loose of the foundations , and the sense somewhere of a god turning as though about to look at ...
be partial , no sooner glimpsed than left.10 The total effect of Bulgakov's novel is one of enormous zest and wonder , a spiritual shaking- loose of the foundations , and the sense somewhere of a god turning as though about to look at ...
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The novel gives full scope to the possibility that Fat is deluded about God for at least part of the time , particularly in relation to a strange pink light that conveys his first revelation ; and the ' supernatural ' , if we may speak ...
The novel gives full scope to the possibility that Fat is deluded about God for at least part of the time , particularly in relation to a strange pink light that conveys his first revelation ; and the ' supernatural ' , if we may speak ...
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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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