Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentMacmillan, 1992 - 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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... sense that we cannot know God , and the Christian's belief that we must first know ourselves . At any rate , several of the works we shall be considering are very much more concerned with human conduct on Introduction 7.
... sense that we cannot know God , and the Christian's belief that we must first know ourselves . At any rate , several of the works we shall be considering are very much more concerned with human conduct on Introduction 7.
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... concerned with the portrayal of otherness or the desirable for their own sakes . He is determined that his readers should experience them too . The strange thing with him is that , for all that his fantastic worlds are far more invented ...
... concerned with the portrayal of otherness or the desirable for their own sakes . He is determined that his readers should experience them too . The strange thing with him is that , for all that his fantastic worlds are far more invented ...
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... concerned with finding out than with moral teaching , 286 ; not concerned with humble or Christ - like figures , 286 ; Christian patterns commandeered for secular purposes , 286-7 ; but science fiction one of the most ' religious ' of ...
... concerned with finding out than with moral teaching , 286 ; not concerned with humble or Christ - like figures , 286 ; Christian patterns commandeered for secular purposes , 286-7 ; but science fiction one of the most ' religious ' of ...
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The French Queste del Saint Graal | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
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