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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... Fairy Tales 164 14 Charles Kingsley : The Water - Babies 183 15 Twentieth - Century Christian Fantasy 209 16 Charles Williams 215 17 C. S. Lewis 18 Other Writers Notes Index 237 262 303 342 Preface I wrote this book out of two wishes . vii.
... Fairy Tales 164 14 Charles Kingsley : The Water - Babies 183 15 Twentieth - Century Christian Fantasy 209 16 Charles Williams 215 17 C. S. Lewis 18 Other Writers Notes Index 237 262 303 342 Preface I wrote this book out of two wishes . vii.
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... 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 instance , that the apocalyptic book of Revelation is ...
... 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 instance , that the apocalyptic book of Revelation is ...
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... century , when the use of the supernatural and the free imagination were under attack in England from philosophers and critics such as Hobbes and Locke , Cowley and Dryden , the permitted exclusion from such censure was work dealing ...
... century , when the use of the supernatural and the free imagination were under attack in England from philosophers and critics such as Hobbes and Locke , Cowley and Dryden , the permitted exclusion from such censure was work dealing ...
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... century , are there books devoted to it , as in David C. Fowler's The Bible in Early English Literature ( 1976 ) , Margaret M. Maison's Search Your Soul , Eustace : A Survey of the Religious Novel in the Victorian Age ( 1961 ) , or ...
... century , are there books devoted to it , as in David C. Fowler's The Bible in Early English Literature ( 1976 ) , Margaret M. Maison's Search Your Soul , Eustace : A Survey of the Religious Novel in the Victorian Age ( 1961 ) , or ...
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... centuries , the Church was generally hostile to any form of the supernatural which was not miraculosus – that is ... century , however , ' the marvelous suddenly makes an appearance in high culture'.5 Bernardus Silvestris , in his ...
... centuries , the Church was generally hostile to any form of the supernatural which was not miraculosus – that is ... century , however , ' the marvelous suddenly makes an appearance in high culture'.5 Bernardus Silvestris , in his ...
Contents
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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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