Table of Contents

Part I: The 'Secret Road' of Friendship
1: Two Lives Converge: 1936-1939
2: Together in Oxford: 1939-1945
3: Life After Death: 1945-1963
Part II: Ways of Exchange
4: Charles Williams and the Word of Co-inherence
5: Charles Williams and the Promise of Co-Inherence
6: C. S. Lewis and the Idea of Co-inherence
7: C. S. Lewis and a New Turn to Charles Williams
Part III: A Collaboration in Co-inherence
8: Romantic Love and the Arthurian Myth: Divergence and Convergence in Charles Williams and C. S. Lewis
Part IV: Further Studies in Co-inherence
9: The Web of the World: Charles Williams and William Blake
10: The Impossible Possibility: Charles Williams and Karl Barth
11: From Equilibrium to Exchange: The First Four Novels of Charles Williams
12: From Exchange to Co-inherence: Three More Novels of Charles Williams
13: The Great Dance in C. S. Lewis' Perelandra
14: The Poetics of Desire in Thomas Traherne and C. S. Lewis
Part V: The Theology of Co-inherence
15: Co-inherence and Relations in the Trinity

About the Author

Paul S. Fiddes is Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Oxford (2002), Senior Research Fellow of Regent's Park College, Oxford, and Honorary Fellow of St. Peter's College, Oxford. He took first-class degrees in English (1968) and Theology (1970) in the University of Oxford, gained a DPhil in Theology from Oxford (1975) and was awarded a DD from Oxford (2004). He was Fellow in Christian Doctrine at Regent's Park
College Oxford (1975-1989) and Principal of the College 1989-2007. He is Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bucharest, and a Fellow of the British Academy (2020).

Reviews

the book as a whole is of scholarly value and can be useful for those interested to learn more about co-inherence and how Williams and Lewis employ this in their writings, and may lead to greater understanding of these authors
*Tiffany Brooke Martin, Mythlore*

Fiddes' book is consistently well-argued, well-structured and comprehensively referenced, .... it is approachable and thoughtful throughout.
*Rupert Loydell, International Times*

Charles Williams and C.S. Lewis: Friends in Co-inherence is a rich and informative study which will not only become a significant contribution to the literature of commentary on these two remarkable men, their friendship, and their work, but will also increase our understanding of the concept of co-inherence itself which, in some form or other, stands at the heart of Christian life and faith.
*Brian Horne, VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center*

Fiddes' work deserves strong commendation for its comprehensive and rewarding treatment of their relationship and the relevant aspects of their literary output.
*Peter Stiles, The Glass*