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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... 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 other myths . ? It is now well established , for ...
... 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 other myths . ? It is now well established , for ...
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... biblical narrative : one finds Davenant complaining of Tasso's use of fantastic fictions and pagan fables in Gerusalemme Liberata to embody divine truths , for ' a Christian Poet , whose Religion little needs the aid of Invention , hath ...
... biblical narrative : one finds Davenant complaining of Tasso's use of fantastic fictions and pagan fables in Gerusalemme Liberata to embody divine truths , for ' a Christian Poet , whose Religion little needs the aid of Invention , hath ...
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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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... biblical and divine realities , is also much concerned to prove itself ' true ' , from Kingsley trying in The Water - Babies to demonstrate the presence of God in nature , or MacDonald maintaining that the productions of his unconscious ...
... biblical and divine realities , is also much concerned to prove itself ' true ' , from Kingsley trying in The Water - Babies to demonstrate the presence of God in nature , or MacDonald maintaining that the productions of his unconscious ...
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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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