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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.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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).
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.
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Fiddes' work deserves strong commendation for its comprehensive and rewarding treatment of their relationship and the relevant aspects of their literary output.
