Charles Williams : The New Christian Year:

This is a reprint of 2 devotionals, "The New Christian Year" (1941) and "The Passion of Christ: Being the Gospel Narrative of the Passion with Short Passages Taken from the Saints and Doctors of the Church" (1939), both chosen by Charles Williams, an English poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and teacher. Charles Walter Stansby Williams was most often associated with the Inklings (a group of christian writers including J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis), Williams was also cited as a major influence on W.H. Auden's conversion to christianity and he was a peer and friend of T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Sayers and Evelyn Underhill. These devotionals collect writings from throughout the history of christian thought. His choices were novel at the time, referencing Kierkegaard just as his translations were appearing in english print (Williams helped edit the first translations in England) and drawing upon the little known sermons of the poet John Donne. For each day of the Church year (starting in Advent), quotes will be posted as they appeared in the 1941 edition of "The New Christian Year". They are categorized by the source on the left, so that readers can read more from each author. I will also add links to websites about each source. During lent the "The New Christian Year" will be supplemented by quotes from "The Passion of the Christ". This text has passages from the Gospel accounts of the passion supplemented by quotes from the "Saints and Doctors of the Church".

We know that when one of us falls he falls alone, but no man is saved alone. He who is saved is saved within the Church, as a member of the Church, in union with the other members . . . If you are a member of the Church, your prayers are required for all the members of the Church . . . You are necessary to the Church so long as you are of the Church . . . The blood of the Church is prayer one for the other and her breath is praise of the Lord.

Alexei Chomiakov: Collected Works.

Comments

It was very exciting to see a quotation from the Russian philosopher and religious writer of the 19th century A.Khomiakov. It is joy that Christian message has no language barriers and reaches everybody!
Thank you for the link to your blog. I believe that many readers of Charles Williams will find a lot of profound and delightful things to read in your blog.

Posted by: Olga | May 31, 2006 at 04:23 AM

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Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

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