Grace and Necessity: Reflections on Art and Love

by Rowan Williams

Publisher:

Morehouse Publishing

, 2005

Overview

In this original book Rowan Williams sketches out a new understanding of how human beings open themselves to transcendence. Drawing on the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, the Welsh poet and painter David Jones, and the American novelist Mary Flannery O`Connor, Rowan Williams fulfils his ambition for Christianity to engage with contemporary culture, and that a man who holds highest office in the Church has the time and intellectual energy to write such original theology is encouraging for us all.

Product Details

• Title: Grace and Necessity: Reflections on Art and Love
• Author: Rowan Williams
• Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
• Print Publication Date: 2005
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 172
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Maritain, Jacques, 1882-1973 › Aesthetics; O’Connor, Flannery › Criticism and interpretation; Jones, David, 1895-1974 › Criticism and interpretation; Christianity and the arts; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) › Religious aspects--Christianity
• ISBNs: 9780826481504, 0826481507
• Resource ID: LLS:GRCNCSSTYRFRTLV
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:21:18Z

About Rowan Williams

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.