"In this wide-ranging book, Rowan Williams argues that what we say about Jesus Christ is key to understanding what Christian belief says about creator and creation overall ..."
(Book jacket)
Here's a wonderfully tedious, can't-see-the-forest-for-the-trees treatise for readers who are more fond of comprehending scripture than of thumping it, and also for the instruction of those who are more fond of curt dismissals than of actually educating themselves on the subject.
For my own part, I love this stuff--sort of in the way that a self-flagellant must love the pain that he inflicts upon himself. As with the writings of Aquinas, one lets himself in for a grinding, scraping, stopping and starting, bare-kneed crawl through page after page of intellectual thickets spread out in prose as sharp as nails.
And nothing feels so pleasant as later inflicting the same upon arrogant naysayers who laugh off scripture as child's play from an ignorant ancient time, fairytales and simplicities which they challenge you to defend against the lofty clarity of the secular mind of reason. "Prove your case about God and the Bible," they will say.
"Ah, well, take a look at this by Rowen Williams and refute it. Then I will concede defeat."
Generally, if the person actually does accept the challenge, I will not hear from him again--for he will have found that he never even got within a glimpse of the goal of refutation, for he will in fact have understood nothing whatsoever of what he had read.
Hmm … maybe there is something to this Christianity after all?
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