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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Rowan Williams."”.
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Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Appeal of Polyphony
This thesis explores the relationship between Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin, especially Bakhtin’s notion of polyphony. This thesis traces the presence of the polyphonic approach in Williams’ work to three main issues: the debate around the nature and future of the Anglican Communion, the …
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Authority, unity and truthfulness : the body of christ in the theologies of Robert Jenson and Rowan Williams with a view toward implications for free church ecclesiology.
… the free church tradition. Robert Jenson and Rowan Williams both argue that authority is located in the classic loci of Scripture, tradition and an episcopal teaching office. These chapters will observe what vision of visible ecclesial unity emerges from the ways in which each of these …
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Conscience, ethics and politics: beyond beautiful souls
… three thinkers: Charles Taylor, Gillian Rose and Rowan Williams. I offer a critical survey of efforts to respond to the difficulties that conscience presents, before examining Taylor’s work on moral inarticulacy and secularity, so as to contextualize the problem of conscience and show why people …
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Footnotes to Coleridge: A Genealogy of Theology and Literature
… of figures like Nathan Scott, Martha Nussbaum, Rowan Williams, and Michael Hurley. I ultimately argue that the subdiscipline of theology and literature is, in ways seldom acknowledged, a fundamentally Coleridgean venture; that while Coleridge is often reduced to a footnote in the field, recent …
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A Proper Secularism: Beyond Ideology in Bulgakov, Trilling, Updike and Pynchon
… and fidelity to the material. In the terms of Rowan Williams, “if a proper secularism requires faith; if it is to guarantee freedom, this is because a civilized politics must be a politics attuned to the real capacities and dignities of the person.” It is the argument of this thesis that the …
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From adversity to altruism and beyond: a pastoral theology of resilience
… elder.<br/>The Christian theologian and pastor, Rowan Williams, addresses the themes of<br/>struggle, self, and relationships in such a way as to meet the challenges made to<br/>Christian theology because of the traditional focus on obedience, humility and<br/>self‐denial. By a process of …
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The Difficulty of Homecoming: Film and Philosophy through Monster, A Hidden Life, and Mountains May Depart
… Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Rowan Williams, and Gillian Rose. I begin by introducing the question of homecoming through Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984), characterising it as an inquiry into tragedy. I contend that the tragic dimension of homecoming, along with its …
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Multi-dimensional personhood and the welfare state
… Temple, Jacques Maritain, John Paul II, and Rowan Williams to articulate a theologically-nuanced understanding of the proper function of the state vis-à-vis the provision of welfare. Drawing on the work of Gøsta Esping-Anderson, Raymond Plant and Alan Deacon in the introductory chapter, the …