There were clues in the "name that book" thread -- because I'd been asking about this book there. Here's a quote about it:
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Charles Williams’s best novel is entitled Descent into Hell. Here we watch a perfectly unnoticeable and respectable historian damn himself to Hell by an unremitting sequence of very small petulant choices. Nothing big. But again and again and again he will not have the Way of Exchange — My Life for Yours. At one point, it comes down to his merely having to say yes or no to some folks who are putting on a play, and who need his historical acumen to tell them whether they’ve got the costumes right. But he refuses out of sheer testiness. [He's the guy in love with a creature of his own imagination. - deb]
Well, says Williams, if I will have it that way, then I will have it that way — forever. Naturally we all say in chorus, “George Macdonald! The Great Divorce [C.S.Lewis] !” And we are right, of course: “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’” Williams likes to call Hell Gomorrah: the place beyond the city where I seek the mirror image of myself (Sodom), where I may be altogether alone with no one to get in my hair [Gomorrah - deb].
Read more: http://www.touchstonemag.com/archive...#ixzz23eY9GH00
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P.S. No where is God mentioned in the book - only "The Omniscience". And I don't think Hell is call by that name, either. So it isn't a Christian book, so much as a mystic book.