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This fresh and inspiring look at the meaning of discipleship covers
the essentials of the christian life, including: faith, hope and
love; forgiveness; holiness; social action; life in the Spirit.
Written for the general reader by one of our greatest living
theologians, this book will help you to see more clearly, love more
dearly and follow more nearly the way of Jesus Christ.
'All serious lovers of poetry will want this book.' A. N. Wilson
All good poetry has the power to transport and transform us, to
inspire and challenge us, to comfort and heal us, and to hold up a
mirror to the world around us. In A Century of Poetry, Rowan
Williams invites you to reflect with him on 100 poems from the past
100 years - poems with an originality and depth that can impel you
to search your heart, and to explore your own experience and
emotions at a deeper level. Featuring the work of both famous and
lesser-known poets, from different faiths, languages and cultures,
A Century of Poetry gives you a fresh perspective on works you may
be familiar with, as well as introducing you to poems you'll be
pleased to discover for the first time - or perhaps discover again.
These meditations, by a writer who is both a poet and a theologian,
will open new doors into the experience of reading and absorbing
great poetry, highlighting the ways in which their language and
imagery can touch unfamiliar places in the heart and enliven the
lifelong adventure of spiritual growth and exploration.
The perennial classic: this intimate journal chronicling the Narnia
author's experience of grief after his wife's death has consoled
readers for half a century; this edition features responses from
authors like Hilary Mantel, Francis Spufford, Rowan Williams, Jenna
Bailey ... 'An intimate, anguished account of a man grappling with
the mysteries of faith and love ... Elegant and raw ... A powerful
record of thought and emotion experienced in real time.' Guardian
'Raw and modern ... This unsentimental, even bracing, account of
one man's dialogue with despair becomes both compelling and
consoling ... A contemporary classic.' Observer 'A source of great
consolation ... Lewis deploys his genius for vivid imagery ... It
is a relief for the reader to find that he or she is not alone in
the intense loneliness or feelings of anguish that bereavement
brings.' Henry Marsh, The Times 'Testimony from a sensitive and
eloquent witness [on] 'The Human Condition'. It offers an
interrogation of experience and a glimmer of hardwon hope. It
allows one bewildered mind to reach out to another. Death is no
barrier to that.' Hilary Mantel 'Here, sorrow and despair, the
tiredness and numbness and petulance and nightmarishness of grief,
all have their full, uncontrolled, experienced force ... [Such]
radical openness ... Brilliant.' Francis Spufford *** No one ever
told me that grief felt so like fear. Narnia author C.S. Lewis had
been married to his wife for four blissful years. When she died of
cancer, he found himself alone, inconsolable in his grief. In this
intimate journal, he chronicles the aftermath of the bereavement
and mourning with blazing honesty. He grapples with a crisis of
religious faith, navigating hope, rage, despair, and love - but
eventually regains his bearings, finding his way back to life. A
luminous modern classic, A Grief Observed has offered solace to
countless readers for decades. This companion edition combines the
original text with personal responses from Hilary Mantel, Rowan
Williams, Francis Spufford, Maureen Freely, Kate Saunders, Jessica
Martin and Jenna Bailey. *** What readers are saying: 'A truly
great book - inspirational and untold help.' 'Every human being,
living or dead, understands what Lewis means ... One of the most
valuable books ever written.' 'Lewis, as always, sits down next to
you and validates your grief like a true friend. He lets you rage,
and cry, and even be furious with God, just as he did.' 'If you are
grieving an enormous loss, you may find comfort here ... A great
mind and wonderful writer who understands your grief well enough to
put words to it.' 'His journal was also my journal as I worked
through my own grief. Reading this book was actually comforting in
that I knew that someone else understood my situation and offered
insight and hope ... I highly recommend this book for anyone who
has gone through the death of a loved one or who wants to comfort."
'This little book has had me in floods of tears [and] shows a real
understanding of grief ... To read the words of this great man who
shared and understood my pain and is a life affirming and faith
affirming experience.'
Packed with striking theological insight and spiritual
encouragement
* Based on his popular Holy Week talks, given in Canterbury
Cathedral
In the last years of his life, Dietrich Bonhoeffer began work on an
idea that he called unbewusstes Christentum, "unconscious
Christianity." While Bonhoeffer's other ideas from this period have
been extensively studied and are important in the field of theology
and beyond, this idea has been almost completely ignored. For the
first time in Bonhoeffer scholarship, Eleanor McLaughlin provides a
definition of unconscious Christianity, based on a close reading
and analysis of the texts in which Bonhoeffer mentioned the term.
From a variety of surviving texts, from a scribbled marginal note
in his Ethics manuscript to the fiction he wrote in prison, she
constructs a detailed definition of unconscious Christianity that
sheds light not only on Bonhoeffer's late work but his theological
development as a whole.
Includes a foreword by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of
Canterbury.The Cappadocian fathers of the fourth century--Basil of
Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory Nazianzen--produced thoughts
on the Trinity, the creation, the incarnation, the holistic reading
of scripture and the discipline of the soul which are playing a
more seminal role in Christian theology today that at any time in
the last four hundred years. Too often, however, their teachings
are appropriated in a piecemeal manner, with no acknowledgement of
their mutual interdependence.In this comprehensive introduction to
their writings, Patrick Whitworth enables the modern reader to
share their understanding of the purpose and scope of theology. At
the same time, he brings before us three strong personalities, who,
like the rest of us, were children of time and place, taking up the
pen to address a particular audience on particular occasions.
Stripping out the ruling ideas from the polemical or rhetorical
dress in which they have come down to us, he shows that the
insights of genius lose nothing by being translated from the
exquisite opacity of the original Greek into plain but accurate
English prose. -- Professor Mark Edwards, Christ Church
Oxford."Wonderfully comprehensive and clear. We are able to see the
Cappadocians not as counters in the board game of controversy but
as complex human figures wrestling with the challenges of internal
and external crises for the Church. This will be a really welcome
tool for all students of early Christianity, and excellent and
accessible reading for anyone who wants to understand better the
formative period of Christian teaching. It is a message that the
Church of our own time should take very seriously." -- Rowan
Williams (from the foreword), Master of Magdalene College,
CambridgePatrick Whitworth read Modern History at Christ Church
Oxford, and a Theology MA in Reformation Studies under T. H. L.
Parker at Durham. He has spent over 30 years in Anglican Ministry,
currently Rector of All Saints Weston Bath, Langridge and North
Stoke. He is married to Olivia with four grown up children.
What is consciousness? Is the mind a machine? What makes us
persons? What does it mean to aspire to human maturity? These are
among the fundamental questions that Rowan Williams helps us to
think about in this deeply engaging exploration of what it means to
be human. The book ends with a brief but profound meditation on the
person of Christ, inviting us to consider how, through him, 'our
humanity in all its variety, in all its vulnerability, has been
taken into the heart of the divine life'.
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.
Full of sensitive pastoral advice and shot through with arresting
and illuminating theological insights, Rowan Williams' new book
explores the meaning and practice of four essential components of
the Christian life: baptism, Bible, Eucharist and prayer.
'As we contemplate the coming months, not knowing when we can
breathe again, it's worth thinking about how already the
foundations have been laid for whatever new opportunities God has
for us on the far side of this crisis.' Rowan Williams offers these
words of wisdom and many more in Candles in the Dark. This powerful
and timely book brings together the 26 weekly Christian meditations
originally posted online from March to September 2020, during
lockdown in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, for the
congregation of his local parish church. Candles in the Dark is a
lovely Christian book of comfort for anyone looking for the light
in these dark times. Written with warmth and compassion, these
meditations offer us hope and encouragement as we continue to
endure the most devastating and disturbing world crisis for over a
generation. They will leave you spiritually uplifted and with a
strengthened faith to guide you through whatever may come.
Based on the author's popular Holy Week talks, given while he was
Archbishop, addressed to a public audience in Canterbury Cathedral
* Well-known and well-loved bishop of the Episcopal Church and
Anglican Communion This official biography tells the compelling
story of the Rt. Rev. Mark Dyer: Irish Catholic boy from New
Hampshire, U.S. Navy vet, Roman Catholic then Episcopal priest,
bishop, and seminary professor-and one of the most influential,
beloved leaders of the American Episcopal Church and the worldwide
Anglican Communion. Following a dispute with ecclesiastical
authorities, Dyer left the Roman Church for the Anglican Church of
Canada. Later received as priest in the Episcopal Church, his gifts
as teacher, preacher, and pastor were recognized with election as
Bishop of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. There, he established a new
model of leadership, delegating administrative duties to
concentrate on spiritual direction, pastoral care, and creating
mission projects at every church in his diocese. Also renowned as a
story-teller, many of his favorite stories appear here, told in his
own voice. Called by leadership of the Anglican Communion to a
variety of roles, for more than 20 years Bishop Dyer was on the
front lines of the most contentious issues facing the church
throughout the world, including ordination of women and gay people.
He also was co-chair of the ecumenical dialogue between the
Anglican and Eastern Orthodox Churches, which produced a landmark
agreement after 17 years of meetings.
In this wide-ranging book, Rowan Williams argues that what we say
about Jesus Christ is key to understanding what Christian belief
says about creator and creation overall. Through detailed
discussion of texts from the earliest centuries to the present day,
we are shown some of the various and subtle ways in which
Christians have discovered in their reflections on Christ the
possibility of a deeply affirmative approach to creation, and a set
of radical insights in ethics and politics as well. Throughout his
life, Rowan Williams has been deeply influenced by thinkers of the
Eastern Christian tradition as well as Catholic and Anglican
writers. This book draws on insights from Eastern Christianity,
from the Western Middle Ages and from Reformed thinkers, from
Calvin to Bonhoeffer - as well as considering theological insights
sparked by philosophers like Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. Christ
the Heart of Creation concerns fundamental issues for Christian
belief and Williams tackles them head-on: he writes with pellucid
clarity and shows his gift for putting across what are inevitably
complex ideas to a wide audience.
Richard Carter swapped a life of simplicity with an Anglican
religious order in the Solomon Islands for parish ministry in one
of London's busiest churches, St Martin-in-the-Fields. Seeing a
need for monastic values in the centre of the city, he founded the
Nazareth Community. Its members gather from everyday life to seek
God in contemplation, to acknowledge their dependence on God's
grace and to learn to live openly and generously with all. Part
story, part spiritual meditation, The City is My Monastery offers
spiritual wisdom for daily life rooted in the Nazareth Community's
seven guiding principles: Silence, Service, Scripture, Sacrament,
Sharing, Sabbath Time and Staying.
Thomas Merton's life, especially once he had become a writer, was
to a great extent one of dialogue with people who were distant,
both geographically and historically. In these probing and
perceptive studies, Rowan Williams looks closely at the key
intellectual and spiritual relationships that emerge in Merton's
writings, exploring the impact on him of thinkers as diverse as
Hannah Arendt, Karl Barth, William Blake, Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
Olivier Clement, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Paul Evdokimov, Gerard Manley
Hopkins, Vladimir Lossky, John Henry Newman, Boris Pasternak and St
John of the Cross.
"Humanity: Texts and Contexts" is a record of the 2007 Singapore
"Building Bridges" seminar, an annual dialogue between Muslim and
Christian scholars cosponsored by Georgetown University and the
Archbishop of Canterbury. This volume explores three central
questions: What does it mean to be human? What is the significance
of the diversity that is evident among human beings? And what are
the challenges that humans face living within the natural
world?
A distinguished group of scholars focuses on the theological
responses to each of these questions, drawing on the wealth of
material found in both Christian and Islamic scriptures. Part one
lays out the three issues of human identity, difference, and
guardianship. Part two explores scriptural texts side by side,
pairing Christian and Islamic scholars who examine such themes as
human dignity, human alienation, human destiny, humanity and
gender, humanity and diversity, and humanity and the environment.
In addition to contributions from an international cast of
outstanding scholars, the book includes an afterword by Archbishop
Rowan Williams.
Collected Poems contains the previously published poetry of Rowan
Williams, together with a significant body of new work. Also
included are his celebrated translations from Welsh, German and
Russian poetry. His earlier collections have included pieces
prompted by the landscape and literature of West Wales, and a
sequence of poems on the varieties of love in the plays of
Shakespeare. This Collected adds a sequence commissioned for the
fiftieth anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, tributes to writers
as different as Alan Garner and John Milton, and a reflection on
sculptures by Antony Gormley. The book reflects the poet's wide
range of interest and the variety of poetic mediums he has
explored. His poems continue to respond vividly to the visual arts,
and to the experience and imagination of 'pre-modern' cultures, as
well as to the crises and tragedies of our time. He continues to
read with uncanny clarity the signs that are manifest in nature and
history. Imagination working through language brings us as close as
we can get to our condition. 'I dislike the idea of being a
religious poet,' he says. 'I would prefer to be a poet for whom
religious things mattered intensely.'
Growing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not
to read Dostoyevsky. "Of course, and as usual," she recalls, "I
disobeyed paternal orders and plunged into Dosto. Dazzled,
overwhelmed, engulfed." Kristeva would go on to become one of the
most important figures in European intellectual life-and she would
return over and over again to Dostoyevsky, still haunted and
enraptured by the force of his writing. In this book, Kristeva
embarks on a wide-ranging and stimulating inquiry into
Dostoyevsky's work and the profound ways it has influenced her own
thinking. Reading across his major novels and shorter works,
Kristeva offers incandescent insights into the potent themes that
draw her back to the Russian master: God, otherness, violence,
eroticism, the mother, the father, language itself. Both personal
and erudite, the book intermingles Kristeva's analysis with her
recollections of Dostoyevsky's significance in different
intellectual moments-the rediscovery of Bakhtin in the Thaw-era
Eastern Bloc, the debates over poststructuralism in 1960s France,
and today's arguments about whether it can be said that "everything
is permitted." Brilliant and vivid, this is an essential book for
admirers of both Kristeva and Dostoyevsky. It also features an
illuminating foreword by Rowan Williams that reflects on the
significance of Kristeva's reading of Dostoyevsky for his own
understanding of religious writing.
In many ways, we seem to be living in wintry times at present in
the Western world. In this new book, Rowan Williams, former
Archbishop of Canterbury and a noted scholar of Eastern
Christianity, introduces us to some aspects and personalities of
the Orthodox Christian world, from the desert contemplatives of the
fourth century to philosophers, novelists and activists of the
modern era, that suggest where we might look for fresh light and
warmth. He shows how this rich and diverse world opens up new ways
of thinking about spirit and body, prayer and action, worship and
social transformation, which go beyond the polarisations we take
for granted. Taking in the world of the great spiritual anthology,
the Philokalia, and the explorations of Russian thinkers of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, discussing the witness of
figures like Maria Skobtsova, murdered in a German concentration
camp for her defence of Jewish refugees, and the challenging
theologies of modern Greek thinkers like John Zizioulas and
Christos Yannaras, Rowan Williams opens the door to a 'climate and
landscape of our humanity that can indeed be warmed and
transfigured'. This is an original and illuminating vision of a
Christian world still none too familiar to Western believers and
even to students of theology, showing how the deep-rooted themes of
Eastern Christian thought can prompt new perspectives on our
contemporary crises of imagination and hope.
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