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A PROBLEM OF MORALITY: SACRAMENTALISM IN THE EARLY NOVELS OF CHARLES WILLIAMS

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From: Renascence
Date: 20040101
Author:McLaren, Scott

The very outside of a book has a charm to me. It is a kind of sacrament - an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace; as, indeed, what on God's earth is not? (George MacDonald)

IN the tradition of other writers like Dante and George MacDonald, Charles Williams liked to think of himself as a writer and poet of images. And, like these, he truly did display an astonishing capacity for clothing some of Christianity's most abstract principles in the flesh of absorbing narratives and arresting images. Although he published seven novels before his untimely death in 1945, his first ...

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