Descent Into Hell

Charles Williams

Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1973 - Fiction - 222 pages

The key to Williams' mystically oriented theological thought, Descent into Hell (arguably Williams' greatest novel) is a multidimensional story about human beings who shut themselves up in their own narcissistic projections, so that they are no longer able to love, to 'co-inhere.' The result is a veritable hell.

About the author

(1886-1945) An intense, imaginative, magnetic person, Charles Williams was a member of the Inklings, the group of creative Oxford Christians of the 1930s and 1940s that included C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Though he excelled in many literary genres, Williams is best remembered for his poetry and his original fiction—contemporary religious novels filled with suspense, mystery, and supernatural conflict.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Descent Into Hell
• Author: Charles Williams
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1973
• ISBN: 0802812201, 9780802812209
• Length: 222 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Religion / Christian Theology / General; Religion / Christianity / General