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 71
Indeed the last is quite instructive , for in The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe Lewis has created a wholly ' other ' world - though no more ' other ' than our own is in relation to it - in which a series of adventures occur which ...
Indeed the last is quite instructive , for in The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe Lewis has created a wholly ' other ' world - though no more ' other ' than our own is in relation to it - in which a series of adventures occur which ...
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But he is unlike MacDonald - and Eliot too in that the knowledge of what one is is found in relationship . ... By virtue of this larger relation the ' good ' do not need to act , though they must choose : if they choose to put ...
But he is unlike MacDonald - and Eliot too in that the knowledge of what one is is found in relationship . ... By virtue of this larger relation the ' good ' do not need to act , though they must choose : if they choose to put ...
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Its effects upon his personality are educative rather than instructional and Christian's relation to it , his regret at leaving it , his joy on finding it again , his total , unanalytical acceptance of it , is like a loving relation ...
Its effects upon his personality are educative rather than instructional and Christian's relation to it , his regret at leaving it , his joy on finding it again , his total , unanalytical acceptance of it , is like a loving relation ...
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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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