Theo Hobson
ANARCHY, CHURCH AND UTOPIA
Rowan Williams on Church
‘My title is not merely a flash overstatement. Williams’ understanding of the church really does to have reckon with his apprehension of the gospel as subversive of every political and religious order, as the good news that unlimited human community has been made available through Jesus Christ. “Anarchy” and “utopia” are basic aspects of this vision – and it often seems that the traditional conception of church is sandwiched awkwardly between them.’
A brilliant, short, sharp study of the ecclesiology of Rowan Williams. Hobson examines the development of Williams’ theology and argues that his account of the church is so open, so self-critical, so idealistically Christo-centric and so post-modern that it is questionable whether the traditional institutional structures can survive it. Beneath the apparent orthodoxy, there is a sort of Christian anarchy. < Back
| Price: £9.95 | ISBN: 52578 1 | Pages: 128pp |