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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... desire . Throughout the story we are acutely aware of how Christian , through his possession of his roll and his adherence to the path , has an entry to heaven which others are without ; and yet at the same time we are made con ...
... desire . Throughout the story we are acutely aware of how Christian , through his possession of his roll and his adherence to the path , has an entry to heaven which others are without ; and yet at the same time we are made con ...
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... desire or spiritual yearning in all his fantasy . In Phantastes , indeed , we follow what C. S. Lewis would have called a ' dialectic of desire'.32 It is desire that in a sense takes Anodos to Fairy Land in the first place , as he looks ...
... desire or spiritual yearning in all his fantasy . In Phantastes , indeed , we follow what C. S. Lewis would have called a ' dialectic of desire'.32 It is desire that in a sense takes Anodos to Fairy Land in the first place , as he looks ...
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... desire or Sehnsucht it awakens , is one of the central threads of Lewis's experience as a Christian . It was the experience of that otherness in the form of ' holiness ' in reading MacDonald's Phantastes that transformed him . All ...
... desire or Sehnsucht it awakens , is one of the central threads of Lewis's experience as a Christian . It was the experience of that otherness in the form of ' holiness ' in reading MacDonald's Phantastes that transformed him . All ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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