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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Williams belonged to the Church from the start , and never ' doubted ' in the sense in which that term is generally understood . What he did was embrace doubt as an essential part of the living dialectic of his faith : agnosticism ...
Williams belonged to the Church from the start , and never ' doubted ' in the sense in which that term is generally understood . What he did was embrace doubt as an essential part of the living dialectic of his faith : agnosticism ...
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The remarkable thing about Williams is how much of a sense of the supernatural he has as active within this world . So much is this the case that in his life and work both he seems to have been engaged on a kind of continuous mystical ...
The remarkable thing about Williams is how much of a sense of the supernatural he has as active within this world . So much is this the case that in his life and work both he seems to have been engaged on a kind of continuous mystical ...
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In a sense we could say that Williams ' novels grow progressively less ' other ' , or ' fantastic ' , in the transcendental sense . Now his vision is more incarnational : now the supernatural in its naked form is seen as dangerous more ...
In a sense we could say that Williams ' novels grow progressively less ' other ' , or ' fantastic ' , in the transcendental sense . Now his vision is more incarnational : now the supernatural in its naked form is seen as dangerous more ...
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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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