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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... Bible story itself may be a fable , created by man to assuage his own uncertainties ? - I One answer to this is that it is not at all impossible to see the Bible itself as a Christian fantasy . There are few apart from funda- mentalists ...
... Bible story itself may be a fable , created by man to assuage his own uncertainties ? - I One answer to this is that it is not at all impossible to see the Bible itself as a Christian fantasy . There are few apart from funda- mentalists ...
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... Bible : but also towards remythologising it towards showing that its narratives are part inventions , not necessarily to be taken at face value , to be experienced even as literature rather than as literal.3 No claim is made here that ...
... Bible : but also towards remythologising it towards showing that its narratives are part inventions , not necessarily to be taken at face value , to be experienced even as literature rather than as literal.3 No claim is made here that ...
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... biblical narrative being potentially mere fantasy , the balance can be redressed by considering those Christian writers from Dante to Milton who have insisted that their creations are in part divinely inspired - in Dante's case that he ...
... biblical narrative being potentially mere fantasy , the balance can be redressed by considering those Christian writers from Dante to Milton who have insisted that their creations are in part divinely inspired - in Dante's case that he ...
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... Bible - based account of the temptation and fall of man in Paradise Lost was one in which he could be said literally to have believed . Modern Christian fantasy , while its fictions are at a greater distance from their underlying biblical ...
... Bible - based account of the temptation and fall of man in Paradise Lost was one in which he could be said literally to have believed . Modern Christian fantasy , while its fictions are at a greater distance from their underlying biblical ...
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... ( biblical or otherwise ) , objects of numinous power , and mystical relationship with some approximation of the deity ; and all under the aegis of Christian belief.10 Thus in Dante we find the other worlds of Hell , Purgatory and Heaven ...
... ( biblical or otherwise ) , objects of numinous power , and mystical relationship with some approximation of the deity ; and all under the aegis of Christian belief.10 Thus in Dante we find the other worlds of Hell , Purgatory and Heaven ...
Contents
12 | |
21 | |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
The Faerie Queene Book I | 50 |
Dr Faustus | 73 |
The Metaphysical Poets | 94 |
42 | 107 |
The Pilgrims Progress | 115 |
Heaven and Hell | 131 |
The Little Black Boy and The Marriage | 144 |
Modern Christian Fantasy | 156 |
George MacDonalds Fairy Tales | 164 |
The WaterBabies | 330 |
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