Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis

Friends in Co-inherence

Paul S. Fiddes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

432 Seiten

2021
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-284546-7 (ISBN)

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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, 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.

Paul S. Fiddes is Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Oxford (2002), Senior Research Fellow of Regent's Park College, Oxford, and Honorary Fellow of St. Peter's College, Oxford. He took first-class degrees in English (1968) and Theology (1970) in the University of Oxford, gained a DPhil in Theology from Oxford (1975) and was awarded a DD from Oxford (2004). He was Fellow in Christian Doctrine at Regent's Park College Oxford (1975-1989) and Principal of the College 1989-2007. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bucharest, and a Fellow of the British Academy (2020).

Part I: The 'Secret Road' of Friendship
1: Two Lives Converge: 1936-1939
2: Together in Oxford: 1939-1945
3: Life After Death: 1945-1963
Part II: Ways of Exchange
4: Charles Williams and the Word of Co-inherence
5: Charles Williams and the Promise of Co-Inherence
6: C. S. Lewis and the Idea of Co-inherence
7: C. S. Lewis and a New Turn to Charles Williams
Part III: A Collaboration in Co-inherence
8: Romantic Love and the Arthurian Myth: Divergence and Convergence in Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis
Part IV: Further Studies in Co-inherence
9: The Web of the World: Charles Williams and William Blake
10: The Impossible Possibility: Charles Williams and Karl Barth
11: From Equilibrium to Exchange: The First Four Novels of Charles Williams
12: From Exchange to Co-inherence: Three More Novels of Charles Williams
13: The Great Dance in C. S. Lewis' Perelandra
14: The Poetics of Desire in Thomas Traherne and C. S. Lewis
Part V: The Theology of Co-inherence
15: Co-inherence and Relations in the Trinity

Erscheinungsdatum	22.12.2021
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 240 mm
Gewicht	786 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-284546-2 / 0192845462
ISBN-13	978-0-19-284546-7 / 9780192845467
Zustand	Neuware