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Romantic Agenda

Rowan Williams

Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantmentby charles taylorharvard university,640 pages, $37.95 One way of telling the story of Western philosophy over the last few centuries is to...

Being Cultured

Rowan Williams

Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter by gary saul morson harvard university,ย 512 pages, $37.95 In 1909 the academic economist and former...

The Being of God

Rowan Williams

The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God by thomas joseph white catholic university of america, 734 pages, $34.95 Essentially, this is a book about the...

Queen Elizabeth, Servant of God

Rowan Williams

In one of the inevitable rounds of media interviews in the days following Queen Elizabethโ€™s death last week, one journalist asked a key question. โ€œThe Queen was anointed at...

The Joy of Jonathan Sacks

Rowan Williams

Just over twelve years ago, Sir Jonathan Sacks, as he then was, gave an address to the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops—the first Jewish speaker to be invited to...