Professor Mike Higton mike.higton@durham.ac.uk
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Rowan Williams
Higton, Mike
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Paul Avis
Editor
Abstract
Rowan Williams’s ecclesiology is shaped by his account of the spiritual life. He examines the transformation of human beings’ relationships to one another, driven by their encounter with God’s utterly gracious love in Jesus Christ. The church is the community of forgiven people generated by Christ’s resurrection. It is animated by its constant exposure to God’s love in Christ in word and sacrament. It is held to that exposure by its doctrinal discipline. It is a community in which members go on learning from one another how to go more deeply into that exposure. For Williams, the church’s commitment to unity and its commitment to truth go together: truth cannot be discovered without holding together in unity to learn from one another; and proper ecclesial unity is unity in this search for truth.
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Higton, M. (2018). Rowan Williams. In P. Avis (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of ecclesiology (505-523). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199645831.013.15
Online Publication Date | Jul 10, 2018 |
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Publication Date | Jul 10, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Sep 13, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 28, 2024 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 505-523 |
Series Title | Oxford handbooks |
Book Title | The Oxford handbook of ecclesiology. |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199645831.013.15 |
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Higton, Mike (2018). Rowan Williams. In The Oxford Handbook of Ecclesiology. Avis, Paul Oxford: Oxford University Press. 505-523, reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199645831.013.15
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