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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... human birth , The lesson , and the young Man crucified . But not a star of all The innumerable host of stars has heard How He administered this terrestrial ball . Our race have kept their Lord's entrusted Word . Of His earth - visiting ...
... human birth , The lesson , and the young Man crucified . But not a star of all The innumerable host of stars has heard How He administered this terrestrial ball . Our race have kept their Lord's entrusted Word . Of His earth - visiting ...
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... . Additional factors , par- ticularly the theory of human evolution propounded by Darwin , have made the picture of man and the fall in Genesis untenable . — The miracles of Christ have been questioned . Indeed 1 Introduction.
... . Additional factors , par- ticularly the theory of human evolution propounded by Darwin , have made the picture of man and the fall in Genesis untenable . — The miracles of Christ have been questioned . Indeed 1 Introduction.
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... human life on earth , and His example . The tendency has been towards desupernaturalising the Bible : but also towards remythologising it towards showing that its narratives are part inventions , not necessarily to be taken at face ...
... human life on earth , and His example . The tendency has been towards desupernaturalising the Bible : but also towards remythologising it towards showing that its narratives are part inventions , not necessarily to be taken at face ...
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... human imaginations thus : ' Giue right honor to the heauenly Maker of that maker , who , hauing made man to his owne likenes , set him beyond and ouer all the workers of that second nature , which in nothing he sheweth so much as in ...
... human imaginations thus : ' Giue right honor to the heauenly Maker of that maker , who , hauing made man to his owne likenes , set him beyond and ouer all the workers of that second nature , which in nothing he sheweth so much as in ...
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... human soul . Marlowe's Faustus , who wants to have divine powers and be a god , arguably enacts at a human level the ' aspiring insolence ' of Lucifer , for which he was thrown from the face of heaven . Milton's Bible - based account of ...
... human soul . Marlowe's Faustus , who wants to have divine powers and be a god , arguably enacts at a human level the ' aspiring insolence ' of Lucifer , for which he was thrown from the face of heaven . Milton's Bible - based account of ...
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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