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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... spiritual truths they embody ? or what with his assertion that they were a vision given to Dante direct by God ? Nevertheless it remains the case that , whatever truth a fantasy may contain , it is only an image of the real . To Dante's ...
... spiritual truths they embody ? or what with his assertion that they were a vision given to Dante direct by God ? Nevertheless it remains the case that , whatever truth a fantasy may contain , it is only an image of the real . To Dante's ...
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... spiritual path . Therefore the writing of Christian fantasy has from the first been closely bound up with that faculty most involved in its creation - the human imagination . Every time the writer of Christian fantasy creates a Fairy ...
... spiritual path . Therefore the writing of Christian fantasy has from the first been closely bound up with that faculty most involved in its creation - the human imagination . Every time the writer of Christian fantasy creates a Fairy ...
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... spiritually into divine favour rather than a holy and mystic event in itself : in that great poem there is more ... spiritual decay under the Old Law to health under the New , and to the marriage of the temporal to the eternal . The ...
... spiritually into divine favour rather than a holy and mystic event in itself : in that great poem there is more ... spiritual decay under the Old Law to health under the New , and to the marriage of the temporal to the eternal . The ...
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... spiritual condition of man under the Old Law to that of the Gospels and the New . Our concern is most directly with his attitude to fantasy . And here we find that , while he can produce episodes of extraordinary supernatural occurrence ...
... spiritual condition of man under the Old Law to that of the Gospels and the New . Our concern is most directly with his attitude to fantasy . And here we find that , while he can produce episodes of extraordinary supernatural occurrence ...
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... spiritual terms of almost every event . Above all , we are made directly aware of the fact that it is made to be the re - creation in chivalric terms of Christian patterns of salvation : it is , as it were , inverted typology . The ...
... spiritual terms of almost every event . Above all , we are made directly aware of the fact that it is made to be the re - creation in chivalric terms of Christian patterns of salvation : it is , as it were , inverted typology . The ...
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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