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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We shall find both trying by literary means to show , to make us feel , that God is present in nature and this world . ... Thus each presents us with an image of the baffling character of experience , through which God or the miraculous ...
We shall find both trying by literary means to show , to make us feel , that God is present in nature and this world . ... Thus each presents us with an image of the baffling character of experience , through which God or the miraculous ...
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From 1200 to the Present Colin Nicholas Manlove ... In The Screwtape Letters : Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil ( 1942 ) he presents an imagined account of how the devil is at work in our most ordinary and banal spiritual lapses ...
From 1200 to the Present Colin Nicholas Manlove ... In The Screwtape Letters : Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil ( 1942 ) he presents an imagined account of how the devil is at work in our most ordinary and banal spiritual lapses ...
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From 1200 to the Present Colin Nicholas Manlove. creation by man's imagination ; and more still by Philip Dick , for whom our so solid Earth is in reality a mental construct which can flicker into another form in a moment .
From 1200 to the Present Colin Nicholas Manlove. creation by man's imagination ; and more still by Philip Dick , for whom our so solid Earth is in reality a mental construct which can flicker into another form in a moment .
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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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