Holy Living: The Christian Tradition for Today

by Rowan Williams

Publisher:

Bloomsbury

, 2017

Overview

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams writes frankly on belief, Christianity and the place of religion today. Apart from being a scholar and theologian, Rowan Williams has also demonstrated a rare gift for writing plainly and clearly about essentials of the Christian faith. In Holy Living, he writes with profound perception about the life of holiness to which we are called. The range of Williams’ frame of reference is astonishing—he brings poets and theologians to his aid, he writes about the Rule of St Benedict, the Bible, Icons, contemplation, St Teresa of Avila and even R. D. Laing. He concludes with two chapters on the injunction “Know Thyself” in a Christian context. Throughout, Williams points out that holiness is a state of being—it is he writes “completely undemonstrative and lacking any system of expertise. It can never be dissected and analysed.”

Product Details

• Title: Holy Living: The Christian Tradition for Today
• Author: Rowan Williams
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Print Publication Date: 2017
• Logos Release Date: 2022
• Pages: 222
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subject: Christian life › Anglican authors
• ISBNs: 9781472948441, 9781472946089, 9781472946096, 9781472946119, 1472948440, 1472946081, 147294609X, 1472946111
• Resource ID: LLS:HLYLVNGTRDTNTDY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:32:19Z

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.