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 36
... perhaps more appropriate metaphor , lest it be caught in the gravitational pull of one of the spheres and stop that universal gravitational motion outwards which alone drives us to God . The refusal of affective images , such as a ...
... perhaps more appropriate metaphor , lest it be caught in the gravitational pull of one of the spheres and stop that universal gravitational motion outwards which alone drives us to God . The refusal of affective images , such as a ...
Page 167
... perhaps rather more direction in Lilith , where we know that Vane's ultimate duty will be to lie down with a sleeping multitude in a strange house of the dead in the ' region of the seven dimensions ' , a need beside which his other ...
... perhaps rather more direction in Lilith , where we know that Vane's ultimate duty will be to lie down with a sleeping multitude in a strange house of the dead in the ' region of the seven dimensions ' , a need beside which his other ...
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... perhaps the most apparently serene ; and this at a time when serenity has seemed least possible for the Christian . Williams belonged to the Church from the start , and never ' doubted ' in the sense in which that term is generally ...
... perhaps the most apparently serene ; and this at a time when serenity has seemed least possible for the Christian . Williams belonged to the Church from the start , and never ' doubted ' in the sense in which that term is generally ...
Contents
The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
Copyright | |
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