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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Redcrosse's way to divert him from his path.14 The fact that Una is with the knight will then be significant , for she figures Truth , and her presence , we may therefore suppose , helps him to overthrow Error .
Redcrosse's way to divert him from his path.14 The fact that Una is with the knight will then be significant , for she figures Truth , and her presence , we may therefore suppose , helps him to overthrow Error .
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Milton tried , in an age when it was no longer possible , to make the freed imagination the handmaid of truth . From this time on integration of the two would only be possible where the imaginative vision carried the truth , and not the ...
Milton tried , in an age when it was no longer possible , to make the freed imagination the handmaid of truth . From this time on integration of the two would only be possible where the imaginative vision carried the truth , and not the ...
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By its twelve gates of pearl they understand introductory truths , for pearls signify such truths . ... That ... immense power is inherent in Divine Truth cannot be realised by those who think of truth merely as thought or speech in ...
By its twelve gates of pearl they understand introductory truths , for pearls signify such truths . ... That ... immense power is inherent in Divine Truth cannot be realised by those who think of truth merely as thought or speech in ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The French Queste del Saint Graal 122 | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
Copyright | |
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