I am not entirely sure why I have not read Charles Williams up until this point–perhaps because he is difficult–but tonight I read the first few chapters of Descent Into Hell and am ruing the fact I have not read him heretofore. Here is a passage on the doctrine of the resurrection of the body, presented in the course of describing a suicide, which is just amazing:

“No dichotomy of flesh and spirit distressed or delighted him, nor did he know anything of the denial of that dichotomy by the creed of Christendom. The unity of that creed has proclaimed, against experience, against intelligence, that for the achievement of man’s unity the body of his knowledge is to be raised; no other fairer stuff, no alien matter, but this–to be impregnated with holiness and transmuted by lovely passion perhaps, but still this. Scars and prints may disseminate splendour, but the body is to be the same, the very body of the very soul that are both names of the single man.”

Wow.