1. The Christ in Christabel
Whereas many think of "Christabel- as a sexually gothic obscenity of lesbians, it is evident that the entire story is a metaphor of Jesus Christ's relationship with the Heavenly Father and their battle against Satan and his crude temptations and disguises. ... He felt strong in God's Revelation and applied it to political and social problems (Barth, Christian Doctrine, 6). ... Instead of evil, Coleridge thought in terms of pain, arguing that the function of pain in the divine plan is to chasten man for his moral evil and return him to path of virtue. ... Both of these remarks stated ...
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