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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... devils , angels and even God himself . In Spenser , Bunyan and George MacDonald we travel into a Fairy Land of the soul which is imbued with the supernatural . Marlowe's Dr Faustus depicts a man who bargains away his soul to the devil ...
... devils , angels and even God himself . In Spenser , Bunyan and George MacDonald we travel into a Fairy Land of the soul which is imbued with the supernatural . Marlowe's Dr Faustus depicts a man who bargains away his soul to the devil ...
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... devil ? To that we have to say that such works suppose , even while they do not dramatise it in specific terms , a Christian context for their actions . Faustus damns himself continually by refusing and finally being unable to recognise ...
... devil ? To that we have to say that such works suppose , even while they do not dramatise it in specific terms , a Christian context for their actions . Faustus damns himself continually by refusing and finally being unable to recognise ...
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... devil , the making of any Christian stories but the biblically authorised ones could constitute a wandering from the true spiritual path . Therefore the writing of Christian fantasy has from the first been closely bound up with that ...
... devil , the making of any Christian stories but the biblically authorised ones could constitute a wandering from the true spiritual path . Therefore the writing of Christian fantasy has from the first been closely bound up with that ...
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... devil she is , the scene is afterwards glossed , as are so many , by a passing ' good man ' . He takes as his ' text ' the words of the woman , ' Perceval , come and rest yourself and sit here until nightfall out of the sun , for I fear ...
... devil she is , the scene is afterwards glossed , as are so many , by a passing ' good man ' . He takes as his ' text ' the words of the woman , ' Perceval , come and rest yourself and sit here until nightfall out of the sun , for I fear ...
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... devils walk up and down in it , guiding or hindering men . There may be a realm which one eventually reaches - it matters not that it could also be allegor- ised as the deepest part of the soul – where one may come across a magic ship ...
... devils walk up and down in it , guiding or hindering men . There may be a realm which one eventually reaches - it matters not that it could also be allegor- ised as the deepest part of the soul – where one may come across a magic ship ...
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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