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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... worlds . J. R. R. Tolkien says , ' The Gospels contain a fairy - story , or a story of a larger kind which embraces ... fantastic fictions and pagan fables in Gerusalemme Liberata to embody divine truths , for ' a Christian Poet , whose ...
... worlds . J. R. R. Tolkien says , ' The Gospels contain a fairy - story , or a story of a larger kind which embraces ... fantastic fictions and pagan fables in Gerusalemme Liberata to embody divine truths , for ' a Christian Poet , whose ...
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... fantastic worlds is an issue with many of the writers we shall consider . The dream given to the mortal man in Pearl is a ' veray avysyoun ' , at the same time as it is a dream re - created by the writer of the poem . The image of the ...
... fantastic worlds is an issue with many of the writers we shall consider . The dream given to the mortal man in Pearl is a ' veray avysyoun ' , at the same time as it is a dream re - created by the writer of the poem . The image of the ...
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... fantastic worlds , beings , objects or events with which to render their Christian visions . This investigation will be no static thing . Attitudes to the Christian use of the imagination shifted from the early Christian period ...
... fantastic worlds , beings , objects or events with which to render their Christian visions . This investigation will be no static thing . Attitudes to the Christian use of the imagination shifted from the early Christian period ...
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... worlds ? But there is another implicit reason behind this continual choosing by each writer of new fantastic worlds - even , in the case of say C. S. Lewis , the choosing of a new world from work to work : a Narnia , a Malacandra , a ...
... worlds ? But there is another implicit reason behind this continual choosing by each writer of new fantastic worlds - even , in the case of say C. S. Lewis , the choosing of a new world from work to work : a Narnia , a Malacandra , a ...
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... fantastic worlds into amazed wonder . Of this a good image is Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker ( 1937 ) in which the hero's journey is ever outwards to larger dimensions and discoveries , from intelligences in stars to intelligences in whole ...
... fantastic worlds into amazed wonder . Of this a good image is Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker ( 1937 ) in which the hero's journey is ever outwards to larger dimensions and discoveries , from intelligences in stars to intelligences in whole ...
Contents
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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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