Many Dimensions - Softcover

Williams, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080281221X ISBN 13: 9780802812216

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1931

Synopsis

This penetrating study of evil in the human heart revolves around a mysterious Stone of many dimensions, by which one can move at will through space, time, and thought. Replete with rich religious imagery, Many Dimensions explores the relation between predestination and free will as it depicts different human responses to redemptive transcendence.

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Review:

Imagine Raiders of the Lost Ark set in 20th-century London, and then imagine it written by a man steeped not in Hollywood movies but in Dante and the things of the spirit, and you might begin to get a picture of Charles Williams's novel Many Dimensions. The plot turns on the discovery of the magical Stone of Solomon, through which one can move at will through space, time, and thought. Those who think they can manipulate the stone to serve their own ends, however, find to their horror that, as Jesus once ironically said, "they have their reward." While the story clearly deals with the extraordinary, through his humorous and loving depiction of his British characters Williams more deeply shows us the spiritual reality that lies inside the ordinary. --Doug Thorpe

About the Author:

(1886-1945) An intense, imaginative, magnetic person,Charles Williams was a member of the Inklings, the group ofcreative Oxford Christians of the 1930s and 1940s thatincluded C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Though heexcelled in many literary genres, Williams is bestremembered for his poetry and his originalfiction―contemporary religious novels filled withsuspense, mystery, and supernatural conflict.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 1931
• ISBN 10: 080281221X
• ISBN 13: 9780802812216
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 269