Difficult gospel : the theology of Rowan Williams
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog5843
- Author
- Higton, Mike
- Publication Date
- c2004
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BX 5199 W655 H5 2004
- Author
- Higton, Mike
- Place of Publication
- New York NY
- Publisher
- Church Publishing
- Publication Date
- c2004
- Physical Description
- viii, 174 p. ; 21.5 x 13 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "[By] Mike Higton".
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "So, Williams' writings are difficult in two distinct ways. Much of his writing exhibits real academic difficulty -- difficulty of style, of range, of reference, of argument. Nevertheless, this academically difficult writing serves a simple message: all of it, that is, tries to proclaim the good news of God's utterly gracious, utterly gratuitous love, and raises the question of what difference that love makes to us. And that simple message is the most difficult one we can ever hear, in a rather different sense of 'difficult': it is difficult not because it will demand our most painstaking intellectual skills but rather it will demand everything". -- Intro., p. 5.
- "This book provides a clear and simple guide to all the main themes of [Williams'] theology, and shows how they are related to his reading of the Bible, his careful and wide-ranging engagement with the Christian tradition, 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 of the challenging good news of Jesus Christ. The book is designed especially for those who have no academic expertise or formal training in theology, but are interested in finding out more about what Rowan Williams stands for". -- back cover.
- Contents: Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Difficult Gospel -- Disarming Acceptance -- The Source of Life -- Cloud of Witnesses -- Adulthood and Childhood -- Politics and Peace -- Sex and the Gospel -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Subject and Name Index.
- Author is an Anglican lay theologian.
- Subjects
- Williams, Rowan D. (Rowan Douglas), 1950-
- Theology
- Theology - Anglican Communion
- Theologians - Anglican Communion
- Bible - Criticism, interpretation, etc. - Anglican Communion
- Anglican Communion - Doctrines
- Christian life - Anglican authors
- Christianity and politics - Anglican Communion
- Peace - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Sex - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Sex - Biblical teaching
- Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Homosexuality - Biblical teaching
- ISBN
- 0-89869-470-1
- Call Number
- BX 5199 W655 H5 2004
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)