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".
"Thus it must be" —The ground of this necessity is in himself, whereas the ground of the created universe is not in itself but in him.
Doctrine in the Church of England, Report of the Commission.
When the Messiah . . . stands alone before the high-priest, deserted even by the chosen disciples . . . he is the sole representative at that moment of God's holy people; he bears in his own person the whole burden of Israel's appointed destiny.
Doctrine in the Church of England, Report of the Commission.
God is Love; and He cannot deny Himself.
Doctrine in the Church of England: Report of the Commission.
At every stage of his development he had the perfection appropriate to that stage.
Doctrine in the Church of England: Report of the Commission.
When the Messiah . . . stands alone before the high-priest, deserted even by the chosen disciples . . . he is the sole representative at that moment of God's holy people; be bears in his own person the whole burden of Israel's appointed destiny. Doctrine in the Church of England: Report of the Commission.
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