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Williams, Rowan Douglas was born on June 14, 1950 in Swansea, Wales.
(In his remarks upon being named Archbishop of Canterbury,...)
In his remarks upon being named Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams spoke of “the Christian creed and Christian vision (that) have in them a life and a richness that can embrace and transfigure all the complexities of human life.” Confidence in that creed, he said, “saves us from being led by fashion.”Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement explores Williams’ concern that fashion dictates how we understand and respond to the world around us, rather than long-accepted behavioral and relational norms, or icons. Whereas fashion comes and goes, cultural icons arise from generations of conversation, and “represent some of the basic constraints on what human beings can reasonably do and say together if they are going to remain within a recognizably human conversation.” Specifically Williams explores images of childhood, our awkwardness at speaking about community, our unwillingness to think seriously about remorse, and our devastating lack of vocabulary for the growth and nurture of the self through time. “All have in common the presupposition that we cannot choose just any course of action in respect of our human and non-human environment,” he writes, “and still expect to ‘make sense.’”In Lost Icons, he explores how cultural norms have been discarded and how society will suffer without a sense of “soul.”“Those who are already familiar with the writings of Rowan Williams will know of his gift of taking the ordinary stuff of human experience and opening it up to show how it can carry us into the mystery of God incarnate. They will not be surprised to discover that in his new book he once again enlightens us.” –The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold“How rare it is to find someone who, simultaneously, is thoughtfully and constructively involved both with the main teachings of Christian theology and also with contemporary culture, politics, education, and spirituality. This is a rich book…” –David F. Ford, Theology Today“Rowan Williams is one of the deepest and most insightful theologians today. Here he reflects on crucial notions – childhood, charity, remorse, soul – that we depend upon but have allowed to atrophy.” –L. Gregory Jones, Dean and Professor of Theology, Duke Divinity School.Rowan Williams will be the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury. 5 ½ x 8 ½paperback200 pages0-8192-1948-7$15.95>
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(Shows in a thought provoking and profound manner, how the...)
Shows in a thought provoking and profound manner, how the experience of the resurrection was from the first one of forgiveness and of healing memories of injury, guilt and failure.
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(Why is it 'good news' to say that 'Jesus is risen'? What ...)
Why is it 'good news' to say that 'Jesus is risen'? What has the resurrection to do with our idea of salvation? This book sets out to show how the experience of the resurrection was from the first one of forgiveness and of the healing of memories of injury, guilt or failure. Out of this healing grow new patterns of life together, and a new understanding of God. This classic work by one of the finest theological minds of our day is renowned for its synthesis of theology and spirituality, critical analysis and devotion.
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( Rowan Williams's first collections of poems, After Sile...)
Rowan Williams's first collections of poems, After Silent Centuries and Remembering Jerusalem, along with a selection of new ones make up this new collection. It displays a poetry that embodies abstract ideas in vivid sensual images. The subject matter ranges widely: the natural world, works of art, recollections of a visit to the Holy Land at Easter, thoughts arising from fragments of the ancient Celtic world, and reflections on modern Welsh life. A group of poems expresses meditations on death, arising from Williams’s experience of grief at the loss of loved people including his father and his mother, and widens to include the last days of Tolstoy, Nietzsche in his madness, Rilke, Simone Weil, and Thomas Merton. There are translations, three from Rilke, and several from the Welsh, where the translator succeeds in his professed aim of writing a real poem in English, which conveys the imagery and energy of the original.
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(In this classic treatise on Christian spirituality, Rowan...)
In this classic treatise on Christian spirituality, Rowan Williams takes us with a new eye along a road marked out by Paul, John, Ignatius, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Athanasius, Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, and finally to Luther and St. John of the Cross. The Wound of Knowledge is a penetrating psychological and intellectual analysis of Christian spirituality.
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( What we call holy in the world – a person, a place, a s...)
What we call holy in the world – a person, a place, a set of words or pictures – is so because the completely foreign is brought together with the familiar and the everyday. No one embodies this more than Mary, who literally makes a home for the Creator of all things in her own body and in her own house – the strangest reality we can conceive. Ponder These Things invites readers to explore and reflect on the depths of meaning in three classic icons of the Virgin and her Child from the Eastern Christian tradition. Icons have been described as “theology in line and color” and, in tracing the movement within these icons, The Archbishop of Canterbury discovers the pattern of love that they reveal, a love that invites and embraces us so that we no longer remain as spectators, but find ourselves caught up in the drama that unfolds itself before us. “Icons, says Archbishop Rowan, show us the way…. They help us to cross borders, to enter into a new and transfigured world. And that is exactly what I experienced as I read…. This is a book to be read not once only, but many times.” —Kallistos Ware, in the Foreword
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(In this classic treatise on Christian spirituality, Rowan...)
In this classic treatise on Christian spirituality, Rowan Williams takes us with a new eye along a road marked out by Paul, John, Ignatius, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Athanasius, Basil, Gregory of Nyssa, Augustine, and finally to Luther and St. John of the Cross. The Wound of Knowledge is a penetrating psychological and intellectual analysis of Christian spirituality from one of the finest theological minds of our day.
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(Why is it 'good news' to say that 'Jesus is risen'? What ...)
Why is it 'good news' to say that 'Jesus is risen'? What has the resurrection to do with our idea of salvation? This book sets out to show how the experience of the resurrection was from the first one of forgiveness and of the healing of memories of injury, guilt or failure. Out of this healing grow new patterns of life together, and a new understanding of God. This classic work by one of the finest theological minds of our day is renowned for its synthesis of theology and spirituality, critical analysis and devotion.
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(Arius is widely considered to be Rowan Williams's magnum ...)
Arius is widely considered to be Rowan Williams's magnum opus. Long out of print and never before available in paperback, it has been newly revised. This expanded and updated edition marks a major publishing event. Arianism has been called the "archetypal Christian heresy" because it denies the divinity of Christ. In his masterly examination of Arianism, Rowan Williams argues that Arius himself was actually a dedicated theological conservative whose concern was to defend the free and personal character of the Christian God. His "heresy" grew out of an attempt to unite traditional biblical language with radical philosophical ideas and techniques and was, from the start, involved with issues of authority in the church. Thus, the crisis of the early fourth century was not only about the doctrine of God but also about the relations between emperors, bishops, and "charismatic" teachers in the church's decision-making. In the course of his discussion, Williams raises the vital wider questions of how heresy is defined and how certain kinds of traditionalism transform themselves into heresy. Augmented with a new appendix in which Williams interacts with significant scholarship since 1987, this book provides fascinating reading for anyone interested in church history and the development of Christian doctrine.
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(Is there an "Anglican identity"? Or is living with the te...)
Is there an "Anglican identity"? Or is living with the tension between different temperaments and histories itself at the heart of the genius of Anglicanism? Anglican Identities draws together studies and profiles by Rowan Williams that sympathetically explore approaches to scripture, tradition, and authority that are very different―yet at the same time distinctively Anglican. William Tyndale, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, B. F. Westcott, Michael Ramsey, and John A. T. Robinson are among the writers and theologians whose work Archbishop Williams explores. Williams resists easy characterizations and makes surprising connections between apparently opposing positions. In his study of the Victorian biblical scholar B. F. Westcott, for example, he suggests that “we might begin to identify a style of Anglican liberalism that is rather different from what liberalism is commonly supposed to be.” Significantly, the name that recurs most often in these essays is that of Richard Hooker: “tantalizingly hard to pigeonhole―like the Anglican tradition as a whole.” Anglican Identities conveys the richness of the Anglican mosaic without ducking the difficult question of how far diversity can stretch before a common tradition begins to fragment.
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(A POWERFUL AND MOVING MESSAGE 31687 The trial, conviction...)
A POWERFUL AND MOVING MESSAGE 31687 The trial, conviction and death of an innocent man 2000 years ago has particular resonance today. Atrocities from around the world shake us every week. And we ourselves also experience trials and challenges in our own lives. Bringing the gospel accounts vividly to life, Rowan Williams looks at how the trial of Christ profoundly challenges both what we believe and how we live. Drawing not only from the Bible, but also from contemporary fiction, film and theatre, he explores the ways society continues to put Christ on trial today. In fact, all Christians stand with him before a watching world. How we respond to this challenge is the focus of Christ on Trial. It increases our confidence in the faith we have received, and invites us to discover 'what we are and what we might be in God's sight'.
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( This classic invites you to explore the depths of meani...)
This classic invites you to explore the depths of meaning in three classic icons of the Virgin Mary and her Child from the Eastern Christian tradition. Rowan Williams discovers the pattern of love that they reveal, a love that invites and embraces us so that we no longer remain as spectators, but find ourselves caught up in the drama that unfolds itself before us. “A book to be read not once only, but many times.” -Kallistos Ware, from the Foreword
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Williams, Rowan Douglas was born on June 14, 1950 in Swansea, Wales.
Bachelor, Christ's College, University Cambridge, 1971. Master of Arts, Christ's College, University Cambridge, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, Wadham College, Oxford University, 1975.
Doctor of Divinity, Wadham College, Oxford University, 1989.
Lecturer College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, 1975—1977. Ordained deacon, 1977, priest, 1978. Tutor Westcott House, Cambridge, 1977—1980.
Honorary curate Chesterton St. George, Ely, 1980—1983. Lecturer divinity Cambridge University, 1980—1986, dean, chaplain Clare College, 1984—1986. Canon theologian Leicester Cathedral, 1981—1982.
Canon residentiary Christ Church, Oxford, 1986—1992. Lady Margaret professor divinity Oxford University, 1986—1992. Bishop of Monmouth, 1991—2002.
Archbishop of Wales, 1999—2002. Archbishop of Canterbury, since 2002. Chancellor Canterbury Christ Church University, since 2005.
(Is there an "Anglican identity"? Or is living with the te...)
(Why is it 'good news' to say that 'Jesus is risen'? What ...)
(Why is it 'good news' to say that 'Jesus is risen'? What ...)
(In this classic treatise on Christian spirituality, Rowan...)
(In this classic treatise on Christian spirituality, Rowan...)
(In his remarks upon being named Archbishop of Canterbury,...)
(Shows in a thought provoking and profound manner, how the...)
( What we call holy in the world – a person, a place, a s...)
( Rowan Williams's first collections of poems, After Sile...)
( This classic invites you to explore the depths of meani...)
(A POWERFUL AND MOVING MESSAGE 31687 The trial, conviction...)
(A collection of talks and sermons covering a wide range o...)
(Anglican Identities by Rowan Williams Cowley Publications...)
(Arius is widely considered to be Rowan Williams's magnum ...)
(A text book. only 2 pages have words underlined.)
Fellow: Royal Society Literature, British Academy.
Married Jane Paul, 1981. Children: Rhiannon, Pip.