Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentSpringer, 18/06/1992 - 356 من الصفحات 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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الصفحة 9
... believe also that through such new images the faith can be revitalised ; and that the very act of ' going away ' from truth may bring one nearer to it . Our concern for much of this book will be with the treatment of the imagination in ...
... believe also that through such new images the faith can be revitalised ; and that the very act of ' going away ' from truth may bring one nearer to it . Our concern for much of this book will be with the treatment of the imagination in ...
الصفحة 10
... believe in God17 - but because Scripture has lost authority , and the Church political power . Christian fantasy , previously the greatest literature that could be written , is now often seen as quaint and peripheral . Many of the ...
... believe in God17 - but because Scripture has lost authority , and the Church political power . Christian fantasy , previously the greatest literature that could be written , is now often seen as quaint and peripheral . Many of the ...
الصفحة 11
... believe that they can no longer be created . There does not seem , given the theology of a Kierkegaard or a Rudolf Otto , any reason to suppose it impossible any longer to sustain the notion of a theocentric heaven ; so why not create ...
... believe that they can no longer be created . There does not seem , given the theology of a Kierkegaard or a Rudolf Otto , any reason to suppose it impossible any longer to sustain the notion of a theocentric heaven ; so why not create ...
الصفحة 19
... believe the miracle of God's workings that it portrays . That is the kind of imagination , if we like , that he will permit in his story . There may have been a Grail . The world for him is such that angels and devils walk up and down ...
... believe the miracle of God's workings that it portrays . That is the kind of imagination , if we like , that he will permit in his story . There may have been a Grail . The world for him is such that angels and devils walk up and down ...
الصفحة 21
... believe in them himself in the way of a Swedenborg . He described them , and God described them through him , to persuade a materialist world of the eternal destiny of the soul . He knew his Hell , Purgatory and Heaven to be fictions at ...
... believe in them himself in the way of a Swedenborg . He described them , and God described them through him , to persuade a materialist world of the eternal destiny of the soul . He knew his Hell , Purgatory and Heaven to be fictions at ...
المحتوى
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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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