Outlines of Romantic Theology

by Charles Williams PhD

Overview

Romantic theology is the working out of ways in which an ordinary relationship between two people can become one that is extraordinary, one that grants us glimpses, visions of perfection. In experiencing romantic love, we experience God: He has been in the experience from the beginning, and the more we learn about it, the more we learn also about Him. -adapted from the Introduction and the Sequel Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to mention one of the most unusual-theologians of the twentieth century. His mysticism is palpable-the unseen world interpenetrates ours at every point, and spiritual exchange occurs all the time, unseen and largely unlooked for. His novels are legend, and as a member of the Inklings, he contributed to the mythopoetic revival in contemporary culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780976402589
Publisher:	Apocryphile Press
Publication date:	10/01/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Author and scholar Charles Williams (18861945) joined, in 1908, the staff of the Oxford University Press, the publishing house in which he worked for the rest of his life. Throughout these years, poetry, novels, plays, biographies, history, literary criticism, and theology poured from his pen. At the beginning of the Second World War the publishing house was evacuated to Oxford where, in addition to his own writing and his editorial work for the Press, he taught in the University.

Table of Contents

I The Term "Romantic Theology" 7

II The Principles 14

III The New Testament in Romantic Theology 27

IV The Mass in Romantic Theology 36

V Dangers and Safeguards 49

VI Doctors and Documents 55

VII Other Aspects of Romantic Theology 67