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The final contrast between Simone Weils account and Charles Williams is the concept of repentance. Simone Weils account seems to lack this element. Simone Weil is about being moved by the will of God towards a determined direction, the example of this being the seemingly inexplicable movement of those farthest from God direct into his arms and vice versa. If God has already determined your path and all you must do to achieve unity in him is to consent, then what need is there for a concept of repentance? In Charles Williams, there can be no unity with God without repentance. Williams explicitly refers to Richard as  “not yet spiritually old enough to repent ” Williams portrays an account of a succession of choices until one has attained sufficient knowledge of God to make the final act of loving another, or substituting oneself for another. Therefore, in the end you have two paths both leading to God, but on adjacent routes.
 
The final contrast between Simone Weils account and Charles Williams is the concept of repentance. Simone Weils account seems to lack this element. Simone Weil is about being moved by the will of God towards a determined direction, the example of this being the seemingly inexplicable movement of those farthest from God direct into his arms and vice versa. If God has already determined your path and all you must do to achieve unity in him is to consent, then what need is there for a concept of repentance? In Charles Williams, there can be no unity with God without repentance. Williams explicitly refers to Richard as  “not yet spiritually old enough to repent ” Williams portrays an account of a succession of choices until one has attained sufficient knowledge of God to make the final act of loving another, or substituting oneself for another. Therefore, in the end you have two paths both leading to God, but on adjacent routes.
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Copyright: Jeff Doherty,2008
    
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