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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... whole work is studded with long passages of explication in spiritual terms of almost every event . Above all , we are made directly aware of the fact that it is made to be the re - creation in chivalric terms of Christian patterns of ...
... whole work is studded with long passages of explication in spiritual terms of almost every event . Above all , we are made directly aware of the fact that it is made to be the re - creation in chivalric terms of Christian patterns of ...
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... whole dream as a vision granted by God to the dreamer , the first part of it , while he is still alone , is seen in his idiom ; but then , when he encounters the maiden and is subsequently given a vision of the New Jerusalem , the dream ...
... whole dream as a vision granted by God to the dreamer , the first part of it , while he is still alone , is seen in his idiom ; but then , when he encounters the maiden and is subsequently given a vision of the New Jerusalem , the dream ...
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... whole is able to convince itself that nothing extraordinary really happened . We know differently , and therefore lastingly know the frailty of the crust on which man's assumptions are founded . By such means Bulgakov could depict the ...
... whole is able to convince itself that nothing extraordinary really happened . We know differently , and therefore lastingly know the frailty of the crust on which man's assumptions are founded . By such means Bulgakov could depict the ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
Copyright | |
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