RowanWilliams goes back to the 4th century desert fathers and mothers for inspiration and insight, discovering that their spirituality resonates strongly with aspects of the modern spiritual search.
This collection of pastoral sermons and addresses, shows how the faith of the creeds can still equip Christians for a vigorous and critical engagement with the world of today.
Since his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury and his return to academic life (Master of Magdalene College Cambridge) RowanWilliams has demonstrated a massive new surge of intellectual energy. In
Apart from being a scholar and theologian, RowanWilliams has also demonstrated a rare gift for speaking and writing plainly and clearly about essentials of the Christian faith. In the chapters of thi
Christianity Today, Award of Merit, History/Biography (2006) The well-worn saying about being condemned to repeat the history we do not know applies to church history as much as to any other
This volume of essays honours Henry Chadwick, probably the greatest and best-known of English scholars of early Christianity. The essays, written by many of the leading theologians and church historians in the English-speaking world, discuss different aspects of how Christianity developed norms and standards in its teaching, how it came to have - and to enforce - a definition of orthodoxy and heresy. It is a collection of fundamental work by internationally recognised experts. It covers issues of orthodoxy from the first right up to the sixth century, and its wide-ranging surveys of centrally important material in early Christianity will find broad appeal among scholars and students of Old and New Testaments, medieval history and patristics.
The life of Thomas Merton was, to a great extent, one of dialogue with people who were either distant or dead. While forging just such a relationship with him, the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Willi
A POWERFUL AND MOVING MESSAGE31687The 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 ourselv
Arius is widely considered to be RowanWilliams'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 pub
Most of the essays collected here were originally given as lectures by author Williams, the outgoing 104th Archbishop of Canterbury (now affiliated with Magdalene College, Cambridge). Throughout the b
In The Other Mountain RowanWilliams relives moments of intense trial, when women and men are transformed in spirit and sometimes in body, also. He not only reads the signs as they appear in nature an
The Edge of Words is RowanWilliams' first book since standing down as Archbishop of Canterbury. Invited to give the prestigious 2014 Gifford Lectures, Dr Williams has produced a scholarly but eminent
In this original book RowanWilliams sketches out a new understanding of how human beings open themselves to transcendence. Drawing on the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, the Welsh poet
