Acronym	Definition
TRoH	The Republic of Heaven

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Given that for Pullman "some themes, some subjects, [are] too large for adult fiction [and] can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book" ("Carnegie"), and that "the most important subject" among those too large for adult fiction "is the death of God and its consequences" ("Republic" 655), Pullman can then assert the seriousness of HDM in terms of both its subject and its generic form in which, like in the Republic of Heaven, "fantasy and realism [...] connect" (661).

"We need a story," he famously declares in "The Republic of Heaven,"

The marriage of heaven and hell? Philip Pullman, C.S. Lewis, and the fantasy tradition

"The Republic of Heaven." The Horn Book 77 (2001): 655+.

"Every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling": Philip Pullman and the challenge of religious intolerance

the Republic of Heaven." In other words, there is still a moral to Pullman's story.

Moving beyond censorship: what will educators do if a controversy over his dark materials erupts? Is the hugely popular trilogy his Dark Materials coming soon to a school near you? Mr. Glanzer ponders the implications of teaching what he regards as a transparently anti-Christian work in the public school classroom

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