Rowan D. Williams Quotes

• Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm.

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• The world’s creation has a beginning from the world’s point of view, not from God’s.

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• To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.

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• Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way that our lives communicate the character of God.

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• And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God’s loving wisdom become actualities – interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

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  Tags in Created, World

• In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

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  Topics in Creation, God, Love

• Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor – but the Church is not a campaign.

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• The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.

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  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Human Rights, Injustice

• Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

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• The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

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Rowan D. Williams (30)

Birth:	14th June, 1950
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Bishop, Theologian

About

Rowan Douglas Williams is an Anglican bishop, poet and theologian. He is the 104th and current Archbishop of Canterbury, Metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury and Primate of All England, offices he has held since early 2003.

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