Left Behind

Fielding says in Ch 1 of Bk 8 that the Christian author, unlike the ancient heathens, "cannot introduce into his works any of that heavenly host which make a part of his creed[.]"

And later in the same chapter, "The only supernatural agents which can in any manner be allowed to us moderns are ghosts[.]"

And Milton?

And anyway, why not?

And how does the whole Left Behind series relate to this alleged incapacity?

Medieval mystery plays?

Miracle plays?

Dramatizations of the Passion?

What on earth?

Assume by "us moderns" he means British authors and an indeterminate breadth of other Christians of his own time.

Still, why?

But among the supernatural beings thus forbidden to modern literature he explicitly does not include "elves and fairies, and other such mummery."

Tom Jones.