Holy living : the Christian tradition for today / Rowan Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Rowan, 1950-

Contributor:

Charlton Yarnall Fund.

Yarnall Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian life.

Spirituality--Christianity.

Spirituality.

Physical Description:

222 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2017.

Summary:

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.'

Contents:

Part I. The Way In :

1. To give and not to count the cost

2. Health and healing

3. The Bible today : reading & hearing

Part II. Shaping Holy Lives :

4. God's workshop

5. Urban spirituality

6. Forbidden fruit : sexuality and spirituality in perspective

Part III. Prayer and Contemplation :

7. Contemplation and mission

8. Icons and the practice of prayer

Part IV. The Genius of Teresa of Avila :

9. What St Teresa means to me

10. Teresa and the scriptures

11. Teresa and the eucharist

Part V. Ways of Knowing :

12. Julian of Norwich's way

13. 'Know thyself : What kind of an injunction?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charlton Yarnall Fund.

ISBN:

9781472946089

1472948440

9781472948441

1472946081

OCLC:

968177906

Publisher Number:

99975323984