We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.
The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world. - Rowan Williams
The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
- Rowan Williams
The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God,… - Rowan Williams
The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God,…
The past is what the present is doing now. - Rowan Williams
The past is what the present is doing now.
Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable. - Rowan Williams
Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.
Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at ti… - Rowan Williams
Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at ti…
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves. - Rowan Williams
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to… - Rowan Williams
Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to…
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness i… - Rowan Williams
In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness i…
I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin … - Rowan Williams
I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin …
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