Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life

by Rowan Williams

Publisher:

SPCK

, 2016

Overview

The aim of this little book is simple: to help you to see more clearly, love more dearly and follow more nearly the way of Jesus Christ.

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.

Key Features

• Features a fresh look at the meaning of discipleship
• Take a look at essential aspects of Christian life

Contents

• Being Disciples
• Faith, Hope and Love
• Forgiveness
• Holiness
• Faith in Society
• Life in the Spirit

Praise for the Print Edition

Here is quite the most beautiful writing on discipleship I know. I am grateful for the inspiration that I find in these pages. I commend it to those who have been on this journey a long time, as well as to anyone who wonders what on earth following Jesus is all about.

—Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury

In this gentle and challenging book, Rowan Williams gives us both a clear explanation of what discipleship is and a stirring vision of what our discipleship can do. It is a beautifully crafted book that gives the reader real food for thought and sustenance for the journey . . . Each chapter would make for wonderful house group discussion material.

—Jude Levermore, Head of Discipleship & Ministries, The Methodist Church

Product Details

• Title: Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life
• Author: Rowan Williams
• Publisher: SPCK
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Pages: 86
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Christian life › Anglican authors
• ISBNs: 9780281076628, 9780281076635, 0281076626, 0281076634
• Resource ID: LLS:BNGDSCPLSCHRSLF
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:17:19Z

About Rowan Williams

Born in 1950, Rowan Williams was educated in Swansea (Wales) and Cambridge. He studied for his theology doctorate in Oxford, after which he taught theology in a seminary near Leeds. From 1977 until 1986, he was engaged in academic and parish work in Cambridge, before returning to Oxford as Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity. In 1990, he became a fellow of the British Academy.

In 1992, Professor Williams became Bishop of Monmouth, and in 1999 he was elected as Archbishop of Wales. He became Archbishop of Canterbury in late 2002 with 10 years’ experience as a diocesan bishop and three as a primate in the Anglican Communion. As archbishop, his main responsibilities were pastoral—whether leading his own diocese of Canterbury and the Church of England, or guiding the Anglican Communion worldwide. At the end of 2012, after 10 years as archbishop, he stepped down and moved to a new role as Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Professor Williams is acknowledged internationally as an outstanding theological writer and teacher as well as an accomplished poet and translator. His interests include music, fiction, and languages.