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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... God as his lover but has been betrothed outwith his choice to the devil . It is theologically orthodox that only God's grace may rescue us from our mortality and sin ; theologically most unorthodox to blame God for failure to penetrate ...
... God as his lover but has been betrothed outwith his choice to the devil . It is theologically orthodox that only God's grace may rescue us from our mortality and sin ; theologically most unorthodox to blame God for failure to penetrate ...
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... God designed to console him . She tells him that , far from being a sign of his being outcast , his black skin is the mark of God's love . God lives in the sun , ' And gives his light , and gives his heat away ' . Instead of saying that ...
... God designed to console him . She tells him that , far from being a sign of his being outcast , his black skin is the mark of God's love . God lives in the sun , ' And gives his light , and gives his heat away ' . Instead of saying that ...
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... God's presence . ' All the proving and all the arguments in the world will not make us certain that God made the ... God's working , that working is so fused with nature as to be invisible ; so that what we have in the ' wonderful fairy ...
... God's presence . ' All the proving and all the arguments in the world will not make us certain that God made the ... God's working , that working is so fused with nature as to be invisible ; so that what we have in the ' wonderful fairy ...
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The Commedia | 21 |
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