He Came Down from HeavenRead Books Ltd, 01/12/2020 - 160 من الصفحات “He Came Down from Heaven” is a 1938 treatise by Charles Williams. Within it, Williams uses his skills as a literary critic to delineate the biblical themes of exchange and substitution from the Fall, through the history of Israel, to the inauguration of the kingdom by Jesus Christ. He also explores how these themes defined Christian culture during Middle Ages with reference to Dante's ideal of romantic love. Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886 – 1945) was a British theologian, novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic. He was also a member of the “The Inklings”, a literary discussion group connected to the University of Oxford, England. They were exclusively literary enthusiasts who championed the merit of narrative in fiction and concentrated on writing fantasy. Contents include: “Divorce”, “In Time of War”, “Praise of Death”, “Lovers to Lovers”, “On the Way to Somerset”, “In Absence”, “Reunion”, “For a Pieta”, “Ballade of a Country Day”, “Ballade of Travellers”, “Ghosts”, etc. Other notable works by this author include: “The Greater Trumps” (1932), “War in Heaven” (1930), and “The Place of the Lion” (1931). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with specially-commissioned new biography of the author. |
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... known are probably War in Heaven (1930), Descent into Hell (1937), and All Hallows' Eve (1945) – all fantasies set in the contemporary world. He also published a vast body of well-received scholarship, including a study of Dante ...
... known are probably War in Heaven (1930), Descent into Hell (1937), and All Hallows' Eve (1945) – all fantasies set in the contemporary world. He also published a vast body of well-received scholarship, including a study of Dante ...
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... known than any of the Creeds, and more habitually used than the phrase from the Gospels. Its opening words undoubtedly imply a place in which “Our Father” exists, a spatial locality inhabited by God. Against this continual suggestion so ...
... known than any of the Creeds, and more habitually used than the phrase from the Gospels. Its opening words undoubtedly imply a place in which “Our Father” exists, a spatial locality inhabited by God. Against this continual suggestion so ...
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... known by us on earth, but they already exist as events in heaven. Heaven, that is to say, possesses timelessness; it has the quality of eternity, of (in the definition which Boethius passed on to Aquinas) “the perfect and simultaneous ...
... known by us on earth, but they already exist as events in heaven. Heaven, that is to say, possesses timelessness; it has the quality of eternity, of (in the definition which Boethius passed on to Aquinas) “the perfect and simultaneous ...
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... known in sequence. The Will emerges from the heaven of its beatitude (and the beatitude of all creatures existing in their mode of perfect relation to it) and returns thither. Of that Will, so emerging and returning, it is said: “The ...
... known in sequence. The Will emerges from the heaven of its beatitude (and the beatitude of all creatures existing in their mode of perfect relation to it) and returns thither. Of that Will, so emerging and returning, it is said: “The ...
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... known except by good.” Things which are not and never will be he knows “not by vision”, as he does all things that are, or will be, “but by simple intelligence”. It is therefore part of that knowledge that he should understand good in ...
... known except by good.” Things which are not and never will be he knows “not by vision”, as he does all things that are, or will be, “but by simple intelligence”. It is therefore part of that knowledge that he should understand good in ...
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The Mystery of Pardon and the Paradox of Vanity | |
The Precursor and the Incarnation of the Kingdom | |
The Theology of Romantic Love | |
The Practice of Substituted Love | |
The City | |
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