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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... Things . 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.
... Things . 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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... pictures of Hell , Purgatory and Heaven for enjoyment and edification , but not with that quickening of fear and desire that must have beset his contemporaries as they read of worlds in whose ultimate reality they believed , and in ...
... pictures of Hell , Purgatory and Heaven for enjoyment and edification , but not with that quickening of fear and desire that must have beset his contemporaries as they read of worlds in whose ultimate reality they believed , and in ...
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... pictures a heaven where he will be consoled for the miseries he has suffered on earth . Kingsley looks for ' absolute divine miracle ' within created nature . They are all extraordinarily different , and all have different Christian ...
... pictures a heaven where he will be consoled for the miseries he has suffered on earth . Kingsley looks for ' absolute divine miracle ' within created nature . They are all extraordinarily different , and all have different Christian ...
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... pictures or mythic re- creations of spiritual truth , his imagination , whether or not ' under licence ' from God , is at work , and is open to challenge for impiety . No matter that Christ used parables to put over truths Himself ...
... pictures or mythic re- creations of spiritual truth , his imagination , whether or not ' under licence ' from God , is at work , and is open to challenge for impiety . No matter that Christ used parables to put over truths Himself ...
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... pictures but realities . Against all such apologies , allegories and translations we shall have to set the fact that all ... picture remains even where they draw heavily on Scripture for imagery , allegories of Christian patterns , or ...
... pictures but realities . Against all such apologies , allegories and translations we shall have to set the fact that all ... picture remains even where they draw heavily on Scripture for imagery , allegories of Christian patterns , or ...
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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