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Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis : friends in co-inherence /

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"This study of the literary relationship between Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis during the years 1936-1945 focuses on the theme of 'co-inherence' at the centre of their friendship. The idea of co-inherence has long been recognized as an important contribution of Williams to theology...

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Main Author: Fiddes, Paul S. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Williams, Charles, > 1886-1945 > Criticism and interpretation.
Williams, Charles, > 1886-1945 > Influence.
Williams, Charles, > 1886-1945 > Friends and associates.
Williams, Charles, > 1886-1945 > Themes, motives.
Lewis, C. S. > (Clive Staples), > 1898-1963 > Criticism and interpretation.
Lewis, C. S. > (Clive Staples), > 1898-1963 > Themes, motives.
Lewis, C. S. > (Clive Staples), > 1898-1963
Williams, Charles, > 1886-1945
Trinity.
Trinity in literature.
Trinité.
Trinité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
Comparative Literature.
Trinity in literature
Themes, motives
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Friendship
Trinity
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Note
  • PART I: THE 'SECRET ROAD' OF FRIENDSHIP
  • 1: Two Lives Converge, 1936-1939
  • 1.1 Friendship in Co-inherence
  • 1.2 A Meeting in 1936: Admiration and Dissent
  • 1.3 A Shared Journey through Romantic Territory
  • 1.4 Two Paths to a Meeting
  • 1.5 The Allegory and Sacrament of Love
  • 1.6 Lewis' Appreciation of Williams, 1936-1939
  • 2: Together in Oxford, 1939-1945
  • 2.1 The Weaving of Lives Together
  • 2.2 The Problem of Pain: A Difference
  • 2.3 The Weight of Glory: A Common Conversation
  • 2.4 Debts and Obligations
  • 2.5 The Figure of the Magus
  • 3: Life after Death, 1945-1963
  • 3.1 Two Reflections on the Journey: Essays and a Torso
  • 3.2 Analogy of Love and Approach to God
  • 3.3 Suffering: The Reasonable and the Tolerable
  • PART II: WAYS OF EXCHANGE
  • 4: Charles Williams and the Word of Co-inherence
  • 4.1 'Co-inherence': A Late Arrival on the Scene
  • 4.2 Companions of the Co-inherence
  • 4.3 Exchange and Substitution
  • 4.4 Being 'in' Love
  • 4.5 Co-inherence, Christology, and Trinity
  • 5: Charles Williams and the Promise of Co-inherence
  • 5.1 Romantic Love and Participation in God
  • 5.2 The Land of the Trinity
  • 5.3 The Idea without the Word: Showing Co-inherence
  • 6: C. S. Lewis and the Idea of Co-inherence
  • 6.1 Metaphors of Co-inherence
  • 6.2 Co-inherence and Participation
  • 6.3 Co-inherence and Co-existence
  • 7: C. S. Lewis and a New Turn to Charles Williams
  • 7.1 Tensions within Images of Co-inherence
  • 7.2 Exchange, Substitution, and Myth
  • 7.3 A Presence of God like Co-inherence
  • PART III: A COLLABORATION IN CO-INHERENCE
  • 8: Romantic Love and the Arthurian Myth: Divergence and Convergence in Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis.
  • 8.1 Approach to the Arthuriad
  • 8.2 A Spiritual Geography of Exchange
  • 8.3 Co-inherence and Hierarchy: Divergences
  • 8.4 The Exchange of Love
  • 8.5 A Growing Convergence
  • 8.6 Convergence in the Wood of the World
  • 8.7 The Co-inherence of the Two Ways
  • PART IV: FURTHER STUDIES IN CO-INHERENCE
  • 9: The Web of the World: Charles Williams and William Blake
  • 9.1 An Incoherent and Co-inherent World
  • 9.2 Forgiveness in a Co-inherent World
  • 9.3 Reason in a Co-inherent World
  • 9.4 The Moment of Vision
  • 10: The Impossible Possibility: Charles Williams and Karl Barth
  • 10.1 Approach to Barth: Co-inherence and the Impossibility
  • 10.2 The Impossible Possibility of the Divine Call
  • 10.3 The Impossible Possibility of Faith
  • 10.4 The Impossible Possibility of Communion with Christ
  • 10.5 The Impossible Possibility of the Church
  • 10.6 Barth, Kierkegaard, and Williams: Negotiating the Impossible
  • 11: From Equilibrium to Exchange: The First Four Novels of Charles Williams
  • 11.1 Movement and Equilibrium: The Grail
  • 11.2 Movement and Equilibrium: The Stone
  • 11.3 Movement, Equilibrium, and Exchange: The Eagle
  • 11.4 Movement, Equilibrium, and Exchange: The Dance
  • 12: From Exchange to Co-inherence: Three More Novels of Charles Williams
  • 12.1 Transmuting Desire in a Parody of Romantic Love
  • 12.2 Substitution and the Search for Something More
  • 12.3 The Context of Co-inherence
  • 13: The Great Dance in C. S. Lewis' Perelandra
  • 13.1 The Two-Fold Centre
  • 13.2 The Moving Centre
  • 13.3 The Dance and the Co-inherent Trinity
  • 13.4 The Moving Centre and Theodicy
  • 13.5 The Freedom of the Dance
  • 14: The Poetics of Desire in Thomas Traherne and C. S. Lewis
  • 14.1 The Desire for Something Unknown
  • 14.2 Desire as Enlargement of the Self: In-being and Co-inherence
  • 14.3 Desire as Wanting
  • 14.4 Desire as Worship.
  • 14.5 Two Visions of Joy
  • PART V: THE THEOLOGY OF CO-INHERENCE
  • 15: Co-inherence and Relations in the Trinity
  • 15.1 Two World Views
  • 15.2 Perichoresis and Co-inherence in the Thought of G. L. Prestige
  • 15.3 'Co-inherence' in later English-Speaking Theology, 1952-1996
  • 15.4 Co-inherence and 'Persons as Relations'
  • 15.5 Conclusion: Analogy and Participation in C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • 1. Names
  • 2. Writings of C. S. Lewis
  • 3. Writings of Charles Williams.