Rowan Williams

Holy Living (eBook, PDF)

The Christian Tradition for Today

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Rowan Williams writes accessibly and for the general reader 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 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.'

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472946096
• Artikelnr.: 49045168

Autorenporträt

Rowan Williams is a former Archbishop of Canterbury and was until 2020 Master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of many books, including Looking East in Winter, Holy Living, and The Edge of Words, published by Bloomsbury Continuum. He lives in Cardiff and continues to broadcast, preach and lecture internationally. In 2022, he gave the second of the BBC's centenary Reith Lectures.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART ONE: THE WAY IN
1 To Give and Not to Count the Cost
2 Health and Healing
3 The Bible Today: Reading and Hearing
PART TWO: SHAPING HOLY LIVES
4 God's Workshop
5 Urban Spirituality
6 Forbidden Fruit: Sexuality and Spirituality in Perspective
PART THREE: PRAYER AND CONTEMPLATION
7 Contemplation and Mission
8 Icons and the Practice of Prayer
PART FOUR: THE GENIUS OF TERESA OF AVILA
9 What St Teresa Means to Me
10 Teresa and the Scriptures
11 Teresa and the Eucharist
PART FIVE: WAYS OF KNOWING
12 Julian of Norwich's Way
13 'Know Thyself': What Kind of Injunction?
Notes
Acknowledgements