Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Fiddes, Paul S.

Publication

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xii, 414 pages; 24 cm

Summary

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, and had significant influence on the thought of Lewis. This account of the two writers' conviction that human persons 'inhere' or 'dwell' both in each other and in the triune God reveals many inter-relationships between their writings that would otherwise be missed. It also shows up profound differences between their world-views, and a gradual, though incomplete, convergence onto common ground. Exploring the idea of co-inherence throws light on the fictional worlds they created, as well as on their treatment (whether together or separately) of a wide range of theological and literary subjects: the Arthurian tradition, the poetry of William Blake and Thomas Traherne, the theology of Karl Barth, the nature of human and divine love, and the doctrine of the Trinity. This study draws for the first time on transcriptions of Williams' lectures from 1932 to 1939, tracing more clearly the development and use of the idea of co-inherence in his thought than has been possible before. Finally, an account of the use of the word 'co-inherence' in English-speaking theology suggests that the differences that existed between Lewis and Williams, especially on the place of analogy and participation in human experience of God, might be resolved by a theology of co-inherence in the Trinity.

Subject

• 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. 1898-1963 > Criticism and interpretation
• Lewis, C. S. 1898-1963 > Themes, motives
• Lewis, C. S. 1898-1963
• Williams, Charles, 1886-1945
• Trinity
• Trinity in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The 'secret road' of friendship. Two lives converge, 1936-1939 -- Together in Oxford, 1939-1945 -- Life after death, 1945-1963 -- Ways of exchange. Charles Williams and the word of co-inherence -- Charles Williams and the promise of co-inherence -- C. S. Lewis and the idea of co-inherence -- C. S. lewis and new turn to Charles Williams -- A collaboration in co-inherence. Romantic love and the arthurian myth : divergence and convergence in Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis -- Further studies in co-inherence. The web of the world : Charles Williams and William Blake -- The impossible possibility : Charles Williams and Karl Barth -- From equilibrium to exchange : the first four novels of Charles Williams -- From exhance to co-inherence : three more novels of Charles Williams -- The great dance in C. S. Lewis's Perelandra -- The poetics of desire in Thomas Traherne and C. S. Lewis -- The theology of co-inherence. Co-inherence and relations in the trinity.

Call Number

JFE 21-9079

ISBN

• 9780192845467
• 0192845462

OCLC

1250308776

Author

Fiddes, Paul S., author.

Title

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

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-9079