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Title: Writing in the Dust by Rowan Williams ISBN: 0802821197 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: A THEOLOGICAL GEM
Comment: William's short yet vivid essay on the events of 9/11 is a theological gem. While many clerics in mainline churches quickly jump on political bandwagons in crises like these, Williams offers profound theology which speaks directly to the soul. A must.
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautifully written, provocatively nuanced book
Comment: In this haunting and deeply meditative reflection, Rowan Williams has introduced a badly needed "breathing space" into the furious debate surrounding the events of 9/11. "Breathing space," in fact, is the central theme that runs through his little book--breathing space as a moment in which time seems to cease, we are caught in a void, and ordinary worries that involve self-concern and competition are momentarily suspended. Our general strategy is to rush to fill the void; humans (even if not nature) abhor a vacuum. But Williams encourages us to explore the void, to let it speak to us, to take time to explore its contours, and to allow ourselves the time to think deeply and honestly and compassionately about 9/11.
If we embrace the void--the break in our usual ways of thinking about the world--created by 9/11, we just might rethink our conventional attitudes to retaliatory violence, to heroism, to globalism, and to how we relate to strangers. These are the four themes Williams so provocatively explores. Retaliatory violence may give us the illusion of control, but it doesn't resolve the brokenness that gives rise to violent eruptions in the first place. Heroism, as displayed for example by fire fighters and cops in NYC on 9/11, is frequently anonymous and "ordinary," rather than the dramatic, fireworks-like military display our culture teaches us to crave. The global village has shrunk the world to such an extent that we can no longer deny that whatever we do in this country impacts the world and will bring consequences (deserved or not) back upon us. Consequently, we need to examine our conventionally bordered definitions of responsibility. Finally, people ought to be seen as they are in themselves, rather than as we symbolically recreate them to fit into our preconceived paradigms. Terrorists see Americans as spawn of the Great Satan; we see terrorists as agents of inexplicable, unprovoked evil. With these symbols hiding our true faces from one another, how can genuinely empathic dialogue begin\ between cultures and peoples?
If you're looking for quick solutions to the horror and grief that began (for Americans) on 9/11, this book isn't for you. But if you're in search of a companion who will help you reflect deeply on the implications of 9/11, read Williams. It might be especially instructive to compare his message to William Bennett's in the recently released *Why We Fight.* The two go in completely opposite directions.
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Title: A Ray of Darkness: Sermons and Reflections by Rowan Williams ISBN: 1561011126 Publisher: Cowley Publications Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement by Rowan Williams ISBN: 0819219487 Publisher: Morehouse Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: On Christian Theology (Challenges in Contemporary Theology) by Rowan Williams ISBN: 0631214402 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $30.95 |
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Title: Ponder These Things: Praying With Icons of the Virgin by Rowan Williams ISBN: 1580511244 Publisher: Sheed and Ward Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Arius: Heresy and Tradition by Rowan Williams ISBN: 0802849695 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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