Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentSpringer, 1992 M06 18 - 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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... creations are in part divinely inspired - in Dante's case that he was given a direct vision of the worlds beyond death . Here we are dealing not with the authority of biblical narrative , but with the more or less immediate inspiration ...
... creations are in part divinely inspired - in Dante's case that he was given a direct vision of the worlds beyond death . Here we are dealing not with the authority of biblical narrative , but with the more or less immediate inspiration ...
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... creation . All tales may come true ; and yet , at the last , redeemed , they may be as like and as unlike the forms that we give them as Man , finally redeemed , will be like and unlike the fallen that we know . " 9 Tolkien is here sug ...
... creation . All tales may come true ; and yet , at the last , redeemed , they may be as like and as unlike the forms that we give them as Man , finally redeemed , will be like and unlike the fallen that we know . " 9 Tolkien is here sug ...
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... creation - the human imagination . Every time the writer of Christian fantasy creates a Fairy Land in which to ... creations of spiritual truth , his imagination , whether or not ' under licence ' from God , is at work , and is open to ...
... creation - the human imagination . Every time the writer of Christian fantasy creates a Fairy Land in which to ... creations of spiritual truth , his imagination , whether or not ' under licence ' from God , is at work , and is open to ...
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... creations not to their own wits but to divine inspi- ration , others who contrast the divine and human imaginations to the disfavour of the latter , others still who let their imagination range as wide as God's universe precisely in ...
... creations not to their own wits but to divine inspi- ration , others who contrast the divine and human imaginations to the disfavour of the latter , others still who let their imagination range as wide as God's universe precisely in ...
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... creations with life , being and reality at the same time as knowing they are but ' an image , not the very real'.16 That is the point at which it becomes fully legitimate to speak as we did at the beginning of this chapter of a gap ...
... creations with life , being and reality at the same time as knowing they are but ' an image , not the very real'.16 That is the point at which it becomes fully legitimate to speak as we did at the beginning of this chapter of a gap ...
Contenido
12 | |
21 | |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
The Faerie Queene Book I | 50 |
Dr Faustus | 73 |
The Metaphysical Poets | 94 |
42 | 107 |
The Pilgrims Progress | 115 |
Heaven and Hell | 131 |
The Little Black Boy and The Marriage | 144 |
Modern Christian Fantasy | 156 |
George MacDonalds Fairy Tales | 164 |
The WaterBabies | 330 |
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