Such an oblique affirmation is at the heart of what we described as our “romantic theology” in chapter 2. For instance, in his Outlines of Romantic Theology, Charles Williams makes a similar claim: “He who, not in any sense for himself or to himself, is surrendered to an entire ardour cannot be said to be far from the Kingdom which will manifest Itself at Its chosen time; the sooner if, as has been insisted throughout, this ardour is directed and controlled by the doctrines of the Christian Religion.”[52] This is the intuition that animates some of our best literature, from Dante’s Vita nuova
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