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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... final objective in view , it is rarely mentioned , and we are not strongly aware of it . At a merely narrative level the final dragon with which Redcrosse does battle comes more or less unheralded , as just one more episode . The third ...
... final objective in view , it is rarely mentioned , and we are not strongly aware of it . At a merely narrative level the final dragon with which Redcrosse does battle comes more or less unheralded , as just one more episode . The third ...
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... final exposure reveals her for what she is is certainly true ; but she has also been , and in the world exists as , the other shapes with which she covers herself . She is as it were a composite of all her apparitions , including the ...
... final exposure reveals her for what she is is certainly true ; but she has also been , and in the world exists as , the other shapes with which she covers herself . She is as it were a composite of all her apparitions , including the ...
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... final battle . The spiritual is thus more pervasive in this story , and the symbolism seems more certainly ' holy ' or biblical , though no more definite in meaning for that : witness the purgatorial fire of roses that transforms ...
... final battle . The spiritual is thus more pervasive in this story , and the symbolism seems more certainly ' holy ' or biblical , though no more definite in meaning for that : witness the purgatorial fire of roses that transforms ...
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