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... figure for participation in the mystical body of Christ . The Eucharist is the supreme figure of Christian eschatology : it is both shadow and sub- stance of a life in Christ , an earthly miracle that invests the concrete present with ...
... figure for participation in the mystical body of Christ . The Eucharist is the supreme figure of Christian eschatology : it is both shadow and sub- stance of a life in Christ , an earthly miracle that invests the concrete present with ...
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... figures act . Blake's uniquely postured images of the body become conventional and representational images of the hu- man figure . In turn these images serve as the personae or agents of perception for both poet and reader - to borrow ...
... figures act . Blake's uniquely postured images of the body become conventional and representational images of the hu- man figure . In turn these images serve as the personae or agents of perception for both poet and reader - to borrow ...
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... figure's head gives the body a downward force balanced by the outward thrust of the light . The human body here is ... figures [ 22 , 23 ] at least experience the full terror of a fallen world . With the human body as both a fallen and ...
... figure's head gives the body a downward force balanced by the outward thrust of the light . The human body here is ... figures [ 22 , 23 ] at least experience the full terror of a fallen world . With the human body as both a fallen and ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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