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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... allegorical interpretation since the earliest days of biblical commen- tary . But over the last two centuries it has become possible also to see the Bible as in part at least a collection of myths , themselves based on the imagery of ...
... allegorical interpretation since the earliest days of biblical commen- tary . But over the last two centuries it has become possible also to see the Bible as in part at least a collection of myths , themselves based on the imagery of ...
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... allegories and translations we shall have to set the fact that all those authors nevertheless chose to create fantastic worlds , beings , objects or events with which to render their Christian visions . This investigation will be no ...
... allegories and translations we shall have to set the fact that all those authors nevertheless chose to create fantastic worlds , beings , objects or events with which to render their Christian visions . This investigation will be no ...
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... allegorical readings or renunciation . And here we should perhaps consider the story rather as a marvellous legend describing a wonder of God and of divine action . We must take the story of the dish from which Christ ate with his ...
... allegorical readings or renunciation . And here we should perhaps consider the story rather as a marvellous legend describing a wonder of God and of divine action . We must take the story of the dish from which Christ ate with his ...
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... allegorical , are still literal ; and he has him move across a mapped terrain to a definite goal . And this is possible not only because he is Dante , but because he has entered into a unique relationship with classical narrative , a ...
... allegorical , are still literal ; and he has him move across a mapped terrain to a definite goal . And this is possible not only because he is Dante , but because he has entered into a unique relationship with classical narrative , a ...
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... allegorical and anagogical : here , it appears , he wrote an ' allegory of theologians ' , in which all four levels of understanding were operative.16 One can see the difference from the French Queste del Saint Graal , where an ' allegory ...
... allegorical and anagogical : here , it appears , he wrote an ' allegory of theologians ' , in which all four levels of understanding were operative.16 One can see the difference from the French Queste del Saint Graal , where an ' allegory ...
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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