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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... called angels and devils : all the inhabitants of heaven and hell , apart from the one God ( Swedenborg is Unitarian ) were originally men ( no . 311 ) . Nor is heaven simply a place of delight and hell one of torture . To those who are ...
... called angels and devils : all the inhabitants of heaven and hell , apart from the one God ( Swedenborg is Unitarian ) were originally men ( no . 311 ) . Nor is heaven simply a place of delight and hell one of torture . To those who are ...
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... called ' It ' or ' Echthroi ' , which threatens variously their father , the world and the universe . In each case they are helped by a form of angel : in the first book by three shape- changing old women called Mrs Whatsit , Mrs Who ...
... called ' It ' or ' Echthroi ' , which threatens variously their father , the world and the universe . In each case they are helped by a form of angel : in the first book by three shape- changing old women called Mrs Whatsit , Mrs Who ...
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... called Gallinger to persuade the Martians out of a fatalistic self - abandonment to the ways of their god : he fails , but in so doing confirms them further in their faith , and inadvertently fulfils the role of their of long ...
... called Gallinger to persuade the Martians out of a fatalistic self - abandonment to the ways of their god : he fails , but in so doing confirms them further in their faith , and inadvertently fulfils the role of their of long ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
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