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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... portrayed is marked , and I was drawn to explore them . I also wanted to trace the origin of modern Christian fantasy , to show how , far from being some isolated outgrowth , it is part of a wider pre - Romantic ' kind ' , which , while ...
... portrayed is marked , and I was drawn to explore them . I also wanted to trace the origin of modern Christian fantasy , to show how , far from being some isolated outgrowth , it is part of a wider pre - Romantic ' kind ' , which , while ...
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... portrayed in a recent collection of essays edited by James P. Mackey , Religious Imagination ( Edinburgh University Press , 1987 ) . We shall be showing how the changing theories of the role of the imagination portrayed in this book are ...
... portrayed in a recent collection of essays edited by James P. Mackey , Religious Imagination ( Edinburgh University Press , 1987 ) . We shall be showing how the changing theories of the role of the imagination portrayed in this book are ...
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... portray is an ultimately bounded and circular one : and that sense of a bounded universe is , more and less , behind all Christian fantasy . It is concomitant with the dialectic of the imagination , at once expansive and controlled ...
... portray is an ultimately bounded and circular one : and that sense of a bounded universe is , more and less , behind all Christian fantasy . It is concomitant with the dialectic of the imagination , at once expansive and controlled ...
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... portrays . That is the kind of imagination , if we like , that he will permit in his story . There may have been a Grail . The world for him is such that angels and devils walk up and down in it , guiding or hindering men . There may be ...
... portrays . That is the kind of imagination , if we like , that he will permit in his story . There may have been a Grail . The world for him is such that angels and devils walk up and down in it , guiding or hindering men . There may be ...
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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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