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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... figures and a restricted knowledge of theology may have made me miss a number of possible insights . But if this book can convey afresh some of the pleasure and wonder of these texts , and surprise its readers with - some of the ...
... figures and a restricted knowledge of theology may have made me miss a number of possible insights . But if this book can convey afresh some of the pleasure and wonder of these texts , and surprise its readers with - some of the ...
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... figure the other . If this might seem to argue too much in the direction of Christian and biblical narrative being potentially mere fantasy , the balance can be redressed by considering those Christian writers from Dante to Milton who ...
... figure the other . If this might seem to argue too much in the direction of Christian and biblical narrative being potentially mere fantasy , the balance can be redressed by considering those Christian writers from Dante to Milton who ...
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... figures , miraculous or supernatural events ( 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 ...
... figures , miraculous or supernatural events ( 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 ...
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... figure who mediates a transition from the spiritual condition of man under the Old Law to that of the Gospels and the New . Our concern is most directly with his attitude to fantasy . And here we find that , while he can produce ...
... figure who mediates a transition from the spiritual condition of man under the Old Law to that of the Gospels and the New . Our concern is most directly with his attitude to fantasy . And here we find that , while he can produce ...
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... that Beatrice verily does sit in the last Heaven near to the feet of Mary ? Yet , ' in reality ' Dante has to some extent put all these figures there : he has ' played God ' in his fiction and assigned these people by 21 Dante: The ...
... that Beatrice verily does sit in the last Heaven near to the feet of Mary ? Yet , ' in reality ' Dante has to some extent put all these figures there : he has ' played God ' in his fiction and assigned these people by 21 Dante: The ...
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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