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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He bemoans his loss to her , tells of his misery and asks her to return with him . She tells him he is ignorant of where he is and what she is . She tells him that when she died she was taken to heaven and now lives as a queen in the ...
He bemoans his loss to her , tells of his misery and asks her to return with him . She tells him he is ignorant of where he is and what she is . She tells him that when she died she was taken to heaven and now lives as a queen in the ...
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He tells himself to ' sound the depth of that thou wilt professe ' ( he often thus addresses himself as someone else ) : he does not know to what depths that will lead him . He bids himself apply his selected branch of learning to being ...
He tells himself to ' sound the depth of that thou wilt professe ' ( he often thus addresses himself as someone else ) : he does not know to what depths that will lead him . He bids himself apply his selected branch of learning to being ...
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In the same way he tells us that in heaven we shall retain our senses ... Or , in another mode , Swedenborg can tell man that his self will continue in heaven , but that the only way to get there is to do without self .
In the same way he tells us that in heaven we shall retain our senses ... Or , in another mode , Swedenborg can tell man that his self will continue in heaven , but that the only way to get there is to do without self .
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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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