Symbolism and the Christian imagination.
Publisher: Helicon Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Symbolism in literature.; Religious literature -- History and criticism.
Description: An illuminating study of the imagery of the early Church, in which the author shows how the Christian experience found symbolic expression. He traces the functioning of the Christian imagination through the High Middle Ages. The Apostles and the Fathers, the martyrs, monks, mystics and poets are each examined in turn. There is a particularly interesting chapter on Mary; woman and virgin.