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Holy Living: The Christian Tradition for Today
Fynn
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Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, No illustrations. BIC Classification: HRA; HRC; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
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' ... Read more
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' ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472946089
SKU
V9781472946089
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About Fynn
A former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams is now Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. A prolific author, he has written with authority on politics, the environment and the economy as well as on religious topics.
Reviews for Holy Living: The Christian Tradition for Today
Read, taste, and grow in wisdom and grace
Richard Rohr OFM
Those who study [...] Rowan Williams' theology and those who collect his many books will be delighted with this new work. It comprises a series of discrete but thematic essays or lecture texts originally written between 1977 and 2016, though most are recent ... This book will ... Read more
Richard Rohr OFM
Those who study [...] Rowan Williams' theology and those who collect his many books will be delighted with this new work. It comprises a series of discrete but thematic essays or lecture texts originally written between 1977 and 2016, though most are recent ... This book will ... Read more