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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... angels , who were pleased to give him a full account of every aspect of the heavenly and hellish realms , to the end of producing a religious revival amid the decaying Christian faith and churches of the mid eighteenth century ( no . 1 ) ...
... angels , who were pleased to give him a full account of every aspect of the heavenly and hellish realms , to the end of producing a religious revival amid the decaying Christian faith and churches of the mid eighteenth century ( no . 1 ) ...
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... angels present with man understand these things quite differently , for they understand spiritually what man ... Angels perceive all these things in this way and not as men perceive them . The natural ideas of man pass into spiritual ...
... angels present with man understand these things quite differently , for they understand spiritually what man ... Angels perceive all these things in this way and not as men perceive them . The natural ideas of man pass into spiritual ...
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... Angel climb'd up from his station into the mill : I remain'd alone ; & then this appearance was no more , but I ... angel's , with its amazingly vivid pictures , is one of the most original and inventive that Blake ever created , even ...
... Angel climb'd up from his station into the mill : I remain'd alone ; & then this appearance was no more , but I ... angel's , with its amazingly vivid pictures , is one of the most original and inventive that Blake ever created , even ...
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