A Ray of Darkness - Rowan Williams

Advantages: Diverse, short articles, interesting, thoughtful and thought-provoking
Disadvantages: Nothing more recent than 1994

---------------------------------- My title is a paradox, and people tend to be annoyed by paradoxes -- in many ways quite rightly. We suspect them of concealing muddle, and so of representing some kind of intellectual or spiritual cowardice. - Sermon entitled 'A Ray of Darkness' ---------------------------------- Rowan Williams, lately Archbishop of Wales and professor of divinity at Oxford, recently took the chair occupied by the likes of Thomas ...
...No mere administrator, Williams brings a keen mind to the position where much theological insight will be required to navigate the changing tides of worldwide Anglicanism. This book, 'A Ray of Darkness,' is a compilation of sermons and reflections gathered over many years, to reflect not only the breadth and diversity of Williams' thoughts, but also beginning to show some of the developmental patterns over time in certain strands. I shall review ... Read review