Rowan Williams and Christian Language: Mystery, Disruption, and Rebirth
2011; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 61; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/014833311106100103
ISSN2056-5666
Autores Tópico(s)Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
ResumoThis essay explores the category of “mystery” in the theology of Rowan Williams. There is, or should be, an ongoing strangeness to Christian speech in that it never ceases questioning, probing, and unsettling. Williams finds the logic for this in the resurrection narratives. The resurrection is for Williams an event that upends, overturns, and re-forms the cosmos; it establishes a form of Christian community and a distinctive cadence for Christian language. The essay investigates this cadence as it appears in Williams' writing on theological method, his work on the resurrection of Christ, and his engagement with the fiction of Dostoevsky and Marylinne Robinson.
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