Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentMacmillan, 1992 - 356 páginas This 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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... Church was generally hostile to any form of the supernatural which was not miraculosus - that is , issuing from God ... Church . But the Church itself was by now less antagonistic to the use of the marvellous , which it felt it could ...
... Church was generally hostile to any form of the supernatural which was not miraculosus - that is , issuing from God ... Church . But the Church itself was by now less antagonistic to the use of the marvellous , which it felt it could ...
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... Church militant , as in its crusades against Islam , but was nearer the Church triumphant ; the danger was rather that it might become the Church corrupt . For a time Dante nourished hopes that through the Emperor Henry VII the time of ...
... Church militant , as in its crusades against Islam , but was nearer the Church triumphant ; the danger was rather that it might become the Church corrupt . For a time Dante nourished hopes that through the Emperor Henry VII the time of ...
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... church bells ringing , and thinks it is Sunday ; but they are audible to him alone . He feels he would like to go to church , for he has never seen the inside of one before . But first he feels he must be clean , and the refrain of the ...
... church bells ringing , and thinks it is Sunday ; but they are audible to him alone . He feels he would like to go to church , for he has never seen the inside of one before . But first he feels he must be clean , and the refrain of the ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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