Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams (Ch. 6-7)

Chris, Logan, and Sophie discuss Charles Williams' novel Descent Into Hell, chapters 6-7.

Among other things, we discuss

• The Unusual Structure of Descent and Why it Defies Summary
   
   
• Prayer for the Dead
   
   
• Distinctions between Charles Williams secondary world and those of Tolkien/Lewis'
   
   
• Influence of Williams' ideas on Lewis (and maybe Tolkien)
   
   
• That famous "Weight of Glory" quote
   
   
• Enchanted, Invisible Worlds: Williams' Unseen World versus Faerie
   
   
• Isolation and Community as Hell and Heaven
   
   
• Heaven in the Fresco at Voroneț
   
   
   
• Echoes of Chapter 7 in Lewis' The Great Divorce
   
   
• Heaven as fact and Hell as self-deception
   
   
• The personality (or lack thereof) of the dead man; his supposed lack of moral agency
   
   
• What to do if you ever see a ghost
   
   
• The dead man's groan, the earthquake, and the harrowing of hell
   
   
• All good actions as extensions of God's goodness
   
   
   
• Dopplegangers in the movies

  

Thanks to Logan Huggins for producing this episode!