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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Página 95
... course precisely what Christ has done for him . But beyond this it is possible to see the imagination as it were authenticated in one way . For what the speaker has done is first to have imagined God in His transcendent and infinite ...
... course precisely what Christ has done for him . But beyond this it is possible to see the imagination as it were authenticated in one way . For what the speaker has done is first to have imagined God in His transcendent and infinite ...
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... course asks a further level of understanding of nature . Thus , taking the book as a whole , we may say that Tom learns , out of the initial apparent fragmentariness of nature , how it is put together , at deeper and deeper ' scientific ...
... course asks a further level of understanding of nature . Thus , taking the book as a whole , we may say that Tom learns , out of the initial apparent fragmentariness of nature , how it is put together , at deeper and deeper ' scientific ...
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... course is not the only ' Christian fantasist ' to write obliquely : Coleridge ( from whom he drew many of his ideas on the imagination and on creation ) does it in ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ' ( 1798 ) . The mariner who shoots ...
... course is not the only ' Christian fantasist ' to write obliquely : Coleridge ( from whom he drew many of his ideas on the imagination and on creation ) does it in ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ' ( 1798 ) . The mariner who shoots ...
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