IMBIF Book Club: The Place of the Lion

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The delay has been long! I am now ready to discuss the next IMBIF Book, The Place of the Lion (1931) by Charles Williams. Williams was one of the lesser known members of the literary group known as The Inklings and was certainly the oddest one of them all. He wrote a number of what T. S. Eliot called “supernatural thrillers” in that the physical world is permeated by the spiritual through sacramental patterns.

The Place of the Lion was the third of Williams novels to be published after War in Heaven and Many Dimensions. Williams draws heavily from Plato, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Abelard in this story where the platonic forms begin appearing in a rural English town. I can’t say I understand even half of this novel, but it should be fun to discuss it.

If you want to dive deeper into William’s novels, then check out the website, The Oddest Inkling.

The discussion of The Place of the Lion will take place Monday, November 25, 2024 at 08:30 PM Central Time. Remember, participation in the discussion is for paying subscribers to this substack. However, everyone will be able to listen to it for free when it comes out. The link for paying members is behind the paywall at the bottom of this post.

The next book for our book club is going to be The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson. The goal is to get this discussion recorded sometime mid to late December, 2024 before the end of the calendar year!

Thanks for reading!