Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentUniversity of Notre Dame Press, 1992 - 356 páginas This is the first account of invented stories of the Christian supernatural, of fantasies that depict imagined forms of heaven or hell, angel or devil, world and creator; it considers their growth and changes from the time of Dante to the present day. Relatively infrequent, such works nevertheless for centuries represented some of the highest aspirations of art. Works considered here include the French Queste del Saint Graal, Dante's Commedia, the Middle English Pearl, the first book of Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, Milton's Paradise Lost, Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, Swedenborg's Heaven and Hell and poems by Blake; and, from the post-Romantic and increasingly less 'Christian' period, the fantasies of George MacDonald, Charles Kingsley, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis and many others. In the development of these works, a primary issue is found to be the fantasy-making imagination itself, at first seen as a potential obstacle to plain Christian purpose, but more recently given freer rein in the new aim of demonstrating God's existence in a more secular world. The picture that emerges is of a literary mode which becomes more fictive and indirect in its presentation of Christian vision. |
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... heaven as a house of many mansions . Thus we have chapters of a highly analytic character , each contributing one aspect of the total truth and love that makes up heaven : ' The whole heaven , viewed collectively , is in the human form ...
... heaven as a house of many mansions . Thus we have chapters of a highly analytic character , each contributing one aspect of the total truth and love that makes up heaven : ' The whole heaven , viewed collectively , is in the human form ...
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... heaven and of hell ; that all visible and physical things correspond to or reflect divine ideas ; that man will inhabit heaven or hell according to whether he puts divine love or self - love first ; that there is an intermediate state ...
... heaven and of hell ; that all visible and physical things correspond to or reflect divine ideas ; that man will inhabit heaven or hell according to whether he puts divine love or self - love first ; that there is an intermediate state ...
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... heaven or hell ; and in offering to the world a new church created in the heavens : in all these things Swedenborg - or God working through Swedenborg may be seen to be as ' anthropocentric ' in tendency as he has recently been ...
... heaven or hell ; and in offering to the world a new church created in the heavens : in all these things Swedenborg - or God working through Swedenborg may be seen to be as ' anthropocentric ' in tendency as he has recently been ...
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The Faerie Queene Book I | 6 |
The Metaphysical Poets | 94 |
Paradise Lost | 111 |
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