Rowan D. Williams Quotes

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

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society. - Rowan D. Williams

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign. - Rowan D. Williams

Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow. - Rowan D. Williams

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself. - Rowan D. Williams

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. - Rowan D. Williams

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum. - Rowan D. Williams

A public is a necessary fiction. - Rowan D. Williams

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. - Rowan D. Williams

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