Jesus In The Theology Of Rowan Williams

Author : Benjamin Myers
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 056759971X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christ the Stranger: The Theology of Rowan Williams written by Benjamin Myers and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the thought of one of the most fascinating theologians and at the same time most controversial church leaders of our time.

Author : Rowan Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472945557
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christ the Heart of Creation written by Rowan Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mike Higton
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0898697727
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Difficult Gospel written by Mike Higton and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rowan Williams is widely recognized as a creative and powerful theologian, but his theological writings are frequently complex and difficult. This book provides a clear and simple guide to all the main themes of his theology, and shows how they are related to his reading of the Bible, his careful and wide-ranging engagement with the Christian tradition, and his grappling with contemporary culture. It shows how the Archbishop's ideas about peace or about popular culture, about sexuality or about evangelism, relate to his understanding of the nature of the life of God, and the challenging good news of Jesus Christ. This book is designed especially for those who have no formal training in theology or academic expertise, but are interested in finding out more about what Rowan Williams stands for.

Author : Brett Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567670198
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesus in the Theology of Rowan Williams written by Brett Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Rowan Williams
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802824967
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christ on Trial written by Rowan Williams and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2003-07-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: HarperCollinsReligious in Great Britain, 2000.

Author : Rowan Williams
Publisher : SPCK
ISBN 13 : 0281076634
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Disciples written by Rowan Williams and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If discipleship is a journey, this book belongs in the rucksack. . . Like the scriptures on which it is based, it deserves repeated reading." Stephen Cherry, Dean of Kings College, Cambridge 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.

Author : Rowan Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472946111
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Living written by Rowan Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apart from being a scholar and theologian, Rowan Williams has also demonstrated a rare gift for speaking and writing plainly and clearly about essentials of the Christian faith. In the chapters of this book 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.'

Author : Lesslie Newbigin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725225514
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Finality of Christ written by Lesslie Newbigin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-10 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern man finds the concept of finality alien to his whole way of thinking. Science teaches him that human history is only a moment in the life of an infinite universe. His study of world religions calls into question the uniqueness of Christianity. Western man's uneasy conscience--due to the excesses of colonialism--makes him hesitant to press his own faith on others. By taking the issues of finality out of the classroom, Lesslie Newbigin demonstrates its importance to Christians with loyalties both to the community of the church and to the community of man. He asserts that conversion does not involve either a denial of the value of a person's previous faith or a blanket acceptance of the church's way of doing things. Bishop Newbigin examines the various Christian interpretations of finality, giving special attention to the views of Dutch theologian Hendrik Kraemer about the relationship of Christianity to world religions. The author advances the debate by showing that the way to move beyond Kraemer's position is to look for the place of the gospel in secular history. The gospel is the announcement of an event which demands that all men make a decision for or against. It is the clue to history--the history of mankind and of the individual.

Author : Kevin W. Hector
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139503286
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology without Metaphysics written by Kevin W. Hector and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the central arguments of post-metaphysical theology is that language is inherently 'metaphysical' and consequently that it shoehorns objects into predetermined categories. Because God is beyond such categories, it follows that language cannot apply to God. Drawing on recent work in theology and philosophy of language, Kevin Hector develops an alternative account of language and its relation to God, demonstrating that one need not choose between fitting God into a metaphysical framework, on the one hand, and keeping God at a distance from language, on the other. Hector thus elaborates a 'therapeutic' response to metaphysics: given the extent to which metaphysical presuppositions about language have become embedded in common sense, he argues that metaphysics can be fully overcome only by defending an alternative account of language and its application to God, so as to strip such presuppositions of their apparent self-evidence and release us from their grip.

Author : Rowan Williams
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631214403
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Christian Theology written by Rowan Williams and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2000-01-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distillation of 20 years of Rowan Williams' pastoral and academic work tackles many of the most searching questions of theology and society at the end of the twentieth century. Collects the work of a prominent writer and serving bishop on the history of Christian theology and spirituality. Brings together Rowan Williams' theological essays with studies of wider issues from a theological point of view. Includes an introduction to his work by Bishop Williams.