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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... thing the atheists maintain that the Bible story itself may be a fable , created by man to assuage his own uncertainties ... Things . Additional factors , par- ticularly the theory of human evolution propounded by Darwin , have made the ...
... thing the atheists maintain that the Bible story itself may be a fable , created by man to assuage his own uncertainties ... Things . Additional factors , par- ticularly the theory of human evolution propounded by Darwin , have made the ...
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... things forth far surpassing her dooings.'8 Here the relation is not immediate divine inspiration , but rather man ' imagination working as it was created to do , in the image of God's . But still it can be felt that even an imagination ...
... things forth far surpassing her dooings.'8 Here the relation is not immediate divine inspiration , but rather man ' imagination working as it was created to do , in the image of God's . But still it can be felt that even an imagination ...
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... things , even in the seemingly strangest of 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 ...
... things , even in the seemingly strangest of 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 ...
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... things of God . Indeed the author's very choice of Arthurian romance as his medium may in great part have been to show this ; certainly , given the enormous popularity of stories of the Round Table in his day , he was exploiting the ...
... things of God . Indeed the author's very choice of Arthurian romance as his medium may in great part have been to show this ; certainly , given the enormous popularity of stories of the Round Table in his day , he was exploiting the ...
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... things are not mere abstractions but realities , and within and beyond all is the reality of the Christian supernatural.1a Put aside the delusions of the world , and there is nothing ; put aside the frauds of Satan and they reveal his ...
... things are not mere abstractions but realities , and within and beyond all is the reality of the Christian supernatural.1a Put aside the delusions of the world , and there is nothing ; put aside the frauds of Satan and they reveal his ...
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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