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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Thus a poem which so much insists on Christ's sacrifice for man does not portray a bridge between the two realms ... In that sense the very absence of the spark between heaven and earth portrays the need for it ; and the poem can thus ...
Thus a poem which so much insists on Christ's sacrifice for man does not portray a bridge between the two realms ... In that sense the very absence of the spark between heaven and earth portrays the need for it ; and the poem can thus ...
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By thus praising God's power as a maker , and portraying it through their own invented worlds , each of these writers implicitly begs the question of the status of his own fantasy : if it can portray divine creativity , then does it not ...
By thus praising God's power as a maker , and portraying it through their own invented worlds , each of these writers implicitly begs the question of the status of his own fantasy : if it can portray divine creativity , then does it not ...
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Lewis is not simply concerned with the portrayal of otherness or the desirable for their own sakes . ... But in a sense every one of Lewis's books which portrays growing contact with the super- natural or a journey towards it relives ...
Lewis is not simply concerned with the portrayal of otherness or the desirable for their own sakes . ... But in a sense every one of Lewis's books which portrays growing contact with the super- natural or a journey towards it relives ...
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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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