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Don't miss our other Valentine's Day CT Classics, "Bonhoeffer in Love" and "Does the Bible Really Say All That About Romance?"

For more information on Valentine's Day and it's history visit Christianity Today's Holiday area and read "Then Again, Maybe Don't Be my Valentine | Does Saint Valentine's Day have its origins in Christian tradition?"

W. H. Auden told Charles Williams that he was "the only writer since Dante who has found a way to make poetry out of theology." Learn more about Williams and his work from the Charles Williams Society.

Read Charles Franklyn Beach's essay about William's concept of "courteous love." Beach examines a wide range of William's works as well as citing ways that Julian of Norwich, Dante, John Donne, St. Augustine, William Law, Blaise Pascal, and Soren Kierkegaard influenced Williams' philosophy.

Williams met often with a group of famous Christians writers to discuss theology and art including C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and other members of the Inklings.

G.K. Chesterton's writings are available on the web, including his religious essays, fiction, and poems. Some of Chesterton's love poems are particularly expressive, such as "The Strange Music." Chesterton's book on The Superstition of Divorce paints a biblical portrait of the sacrificial love that marriage requires.

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February (Web-only) 2001, Vol. 45