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Author: Charles Williams Publisher: Apocryphile Press ISBN: 9780976402589 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 134
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Romantic theology is where an ordinary relationship between two people can become one that is extraordinary, one that grants them glimpses, visions of perfection. In experiencing romantic love, we experience God, according Charles Williams, one of the finest and most unusual theologians of the 20th century.
Author: Charles Williams Publisher: Apocryphile Press ISBN: 9780976402589 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 134
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Romantic theology is where an ordinary relationship between two people can become one that is extraordinary, one that grants them glimpses, visions of perfection. In experiencing romantic love, we experience God, according Charles Williams, one of the finest and most unusual theologians of the 20th century.
Author: Mary McDermott Shideler Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1597523348 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 257
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'The Theology of Romantic Love' is the first comprehensive presentation of the thought of one of the most gifted novelists and original theologians of the twentieth century. Drawing together the recurrent themes and proving insights scattered through his many books, Mrs. Shideler sets forth with clarity and understanding Williams' versatile use of imagery, his key ideas, his revaluation of basic Christian doctrines, and his approach to personal and social ethics. Readers will find in these pages a vivid new appreciation of the experience of love in the life of faith.
Author: Cheri L. Wilke Publisher: ISBN: Category : Love Languages : en Pages : 61
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This thesis examines connections between the works of T.S. Eliot and those of Charles Williams. The two men developed a close friendship based on their shared Christian beliefs, their love of Dante, and their desire to put the spiritual into words. Williams believed that the God of Love in the Anglo/Catholic tradition permeates this world and Eliot believed that this God is present, yet remote and incompressible. Yet there appear to be some very similar concepts and imagery between Eliot and Williams, specifically in the possible influence of Williams' Outlines of Romantic Theology on Eliot's Four Quartets.
Author: Nancy Helen Enright Publisher: ISBN: Category : Christian fiction, English Languages : en Pages : 252
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Charles Williams' Theology of Romantic Love, rooted in the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation, explores in theological terms the meaning and purpose of the romantic experience, particularly focusing upon love between the sexes. Williams sees in the romantic union a microcosm of the City of God, sharing in and expressing its qualities of life: Co-inherence--the living in and by the other whose prototype is the life of the Divine Trinity; and the Body as Index, the Wordsworthian phrase suggesting for Williams the sacredness of the physical as an image and "incarnation" of the Divine in light of the Incarnation of Christ. Williams expressed his Theology of Romantic Love in his seven novels and his two-volume poetry cycle. In a variety of depicted individual lives, he shows how love can be incarnated in several different "paths." Some of these are stages of a journey, one leading to another, such as Love as Vision, the "Beatrician" revelation, which leads to Love as Salvation; others, such as Married Love and Celibate Love are mutually exclusive, though equally valid options. In every instance, we see the theological significance of the human romantic experience. Williams' purpose in his portrayals of the Theology of Romantic Love is not merely to show that love can be theologically meaningful, though he certainly does intend to do that. He is also using Romantic Theology to express the heart of the Christian faith, as he saw it. The God Who exists in Co-inherent love in the Trinity came physically to earth in the Incarnation. Therefore, all of human life and love, including the romantic experience, is potentially redeemed and rendered more significant. Each person and relationship can now be seen as both image and incarnation of God's love; therefore, by experiencing and understanding human love according to the rudiments of Romantic Theology, we gain a glimpse and a taste of the nature and love of God.
Author: Darren Dyck Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1666798959 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 279
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Will & Love examines four of Shakespeare's love plays (Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, and Antony and Cleopatra) in light of the Augustinian psychology at the heart of the theological romance tradition. This tradition, which Shakespeare inherits from medieval theologian-poets such as Boethius, Dante, Petrarch, and Chaucer, issues from the idea, initially expressed by Augustine in his Confessions, that love functions as volitional weight, as a kind of magnetism or almost-gravitational force--that it moves the lover in mysterious ways yet without diminishing his or her agency. Will & Love highlights Shakespeare's conception of love in terms of motion and explores the metaphysical, ethical, psychological, and dramatic implications of his doing so.
Author: Grevel Lindop Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199284156 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 516
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"This is a full biography of Charles Williams, an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings--the group of Oxford writers that included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. Charles Williams--novelist, poet, theologian, magician and guru--was the strangest, most multi-talented, and most controversial member of the group. A charismatic personality, he held left-wing political views, and believed that the Christian churches had dangerously undervalued sexuality. To redress the balance, he developed a "Romantic Theology," aiming at an approach to God through sexual love. He became the most admired lecturer in wartime Oxford, influencing a generation of young writers before dying suddenly at the height of his powers" --
Author: Paul Fiddes Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192845462 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 431
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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.
Author: Aren Roukema Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004369112 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 330
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In Esotericism and Narrative: The Occult Fiction of Charles Williams, Aren Roukema looks through the portal of Charles Williams’s fantastic fiction, analyzing the author’s narrative translations of ritual experiences with modern magic, kabbalah and spiritual alchemy.
Author: Charles Williams
Author: Charles Williams
Author: Charles Williams
Author: Charles Williams
Author: Mary McDermott Shideler
Author: Cheri L. Wilke
Author: Nancy Helen Enright
Author: Darren Dyck
Author: Grevel Lindop
Author: Paul Fiddes
Author: Aren Roukema