Rowan Williams, Author at Catholic Herald

Rowan Williams

We learn to live in heaven by learning to live on earth

February 25, 2024

Many years ago, a youngish academic asked me with some puzzlement what you were supposed to do if you converted to Christianity. He was not hostile to the ideas and doctrines; indeed, he found they made a fair amount of sense to him. But what exactly was the difference it was supposed to make? Yes,

Rowan Williams: Why my favourite book of the bible is the Second Epistle to the Corinthians

August 31, 2023

St Paul’s Second Letter to the Church in Corinth is one of the most unusual documents of the ancient world. It displays a painful vulnerability, a sense of personal betrayal expressed with startling honesty. It dwells on all those things in Paul’s career that have caused him humiliation, admitting that the rival teachers who have

Rowan Williams on his debt to Catholics

February 22, 2021

"Was there a clear call to the religious life, and if so did that entail becoming a Roman Catholic? Monasticism in the Anglican context was a reality, often an impressive one, but was it really rooted in the day-to-day practice of the Anglican Church? Looking back now, what comes most clearly into focus is that the Roman Catholics with whom I discussed this never exerted the least pressure; and I think of them as setting out to help me be a better Christian rather than to secure a convert."

David Jones saw in the Mass the divine foundation of all art

June 12, 2020

David Jones, one of the foremost Catholic artists of the 20th century, might once have been regarded as an acquired taste; but things are changing fast. He is often hard work. His painting shifts from boldly modernistic renditions of landscapes – mostly Wales and suburban London – to ethereally delicate, almost transparent still life studies,

Worship makes our lives bigger and better

September 26, 2014

In this extract from his new book Rowan Williams argues that effective ritual is far from being a retreat to a comforting alternative world

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