He Came Down from HeavenRead Books Ltd, 2020 M12 1 - 160 páginas “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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... nature inhabiting place are less frequently found and less effectively imagined. They have to be remembered. But “which art in heaven” is already remembered. Its easy implications have to be refused by attention. It is not, of course ...
... nature inhabiting place are less frequently found and less effectively imagined. They have to be remembered. But “which art in heaven” is already remembered. Its easy implications have to be refused by attention. It is not, of course ...
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... nature of man, the entrance of contradiction into his nature, and the manner of his restoration. If this theme is ignored the Bible as a whole cannot be understood as literature. By a deprivation of the central idea, and of the ...
... nature of man, the entrance of contradiction into his nature, and the manner of his restoration. If this theme is ignored the Bible as a whole cannot be understood as literature. By a deprivation of the central idea, and of the ...
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... beginning the Bible knows very little of the meaning of words. All great art creates, as it were, its own stillness about it, but by the nature of its subject the Bible does more. It opens with a single rift of light striking.
... beginning the Bible knows very little of the meaning of words. All great art creates, as it were, its own stillness about it, but by the nature of its subject the Bible does more. It opens with a single rift of light striking.
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... nature of that aboriginal catastrophe the tale of which it accepts. It has traditionally rather accepted the view that this catastrophe was the second of its kind, the first having occurred in the “heavens” themselves, and among those ...
... nature of that aboriginal catastrophe the tale of which it accepts. It has traditionally rather accepted the view that this catastrophe was the second of its kind, the first having occurred in the “heavens” themselves, and among those ...
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... nature of the Fall—both while possible and when actual— is clearly defined. The “fruit of the tree” is to bring an ... nature, confined to divine beings. Its communication to man would be, by its nature, disastrous to man. The Adam had ...
... nature of the Fall—both while possible and when actual— is clearly defined. The “fruit of the tree” is to bring an ... nature, confined to divine beings. Its communication to man would be, by its nature, disastrous to man. The Adam had ...
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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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