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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... story about voyaging through space : you must go into another dimension . To construct plausible and moving ' other worlds ' you must draw on the only real ' other world ' we know , that of the spirit . The infrequency with which such ...
... story about voyaging through space : you must go into another dimension . To construct plausible and moving ' other worlds ' you must draw on the only real ' other world ' we know , that of the spirit . The infrequency with which such ...
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... story itself may be a fable , created by man to assuage his own uncertainties ? - I One answer to this is that it is not at all impossible to see the Bible itself as a Christian fantasy . There are few apart from funda- mentalists now ...
... story itself may be a fable , created by man to assuage his own uncertainties ? - I One answer to this is that it is not at all impossible to see the Bible itself as a Christian fantasy . There are few apart from funda- mentalists now ...
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... story , or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy - stories . They contain many marvels - peculiarly artistic , beautiful , and moving : " mythical " in their perfect , self - contained significance ; and among ...
... story , or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy - stories . They contain many marvels - peculiarly artistic , beautiful , and moving : " mythical " in their perfect , self - contained significance ; and among ...
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... felt that even an imagination operating in such freedom returns divine truth from its fictive creations . Thus Tolkien suggests that all fantasy is hallowed , — because the story of the Gospels is in the Introduction 3.
... felt that even an imagination operating in such freedom returns divine truth from its fictive creations . Thus Tolkien suggests that all fantasy is hallowed , — because the story of the Gospels is in the Introduction 3.
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... story of man's fall in Genesis . Blake's ' Little Black Boy ' pictures a heaven where he will be consoled for the miseries he has suffered on earth . Kingsley looks for ' absolute divine miracle ' within created nature . They are all ...
... story of man's fall in Genesis . Blake's ' Little Black Boy ' pictures a heaven where he will be consoled for the miseries he has suffered on earth . Kingsley looks for ' absolute divine miracle ' within created nature . They are all ...
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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