Jesus in the Theology of Rowan Williams
Overview
Brett Gray traces the portrayal of Christ that emerges throughout Williams’ diverse writings, including in his engagements with literature and philosophy. What emerges is a vision of Jesus that grows from the roots of the Christian tradition, but is pronounced in a contemporary idiom and sensitive to modern concerns.
Although attentive to the broad sweep of the Christian tradition, Williams’ Christology is also seen in this book to be a particular British artefact, shaped in dialogue with thinkers such as Donald MacKinnon and Gillian Rose.
What is ultimately brought to the surface in this work is the profoundly hopeful, if frequently under-pronounced, eschatology underlying Williams’ Christology. Jesus is the “last word”, changing creation's possibilities and summoning it into an endless and vivifying journey.
Key Features
- Examines the theological logics implicit within Williams’s writings
- Engages in a faithful expansion and illumination of what is implied by those logics
- Explores related issues of eschatology and divine difference
Contents
- The Difference of God
- A Christological Presentation
- Parodies
- A Christ Complexly Unfallen
- The Complexities of Mediation
- Tragedy
- An Endless End
Praise for the Print Edition
This closely argued monograph explores Rowan Williams’s understanding of Jesus as it emerges in a wide range of Williams’s work up through 2008. Brett Gray’s exploration demonstrates—I think accurately—a consistency in Williams’s approach that might be described as orthodoxy with a postmodern twist.
—Anglican Theological Review
This innovative volume formulates a Christology present in Rowan Williams’s works... It exhibits a meticulous investigation of passages and balanced appraisal of Williams.
—Theological Studies
Succeed[s] in shedding a great deal of light on Williams’s theology.
—Church of England Newspaper
Product Details
- Title: Jesus in the Theology of Rowan Williams
- Author: Brett Gray
- Series: T&T Clark Studies in English Theology
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Publication Date: 2016
- Pages: 256
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Topic: Doctrine of Christ