{"id":1106,"date":"2007-02-27T07:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2007-02-27T07:16:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T11:16:00","slug":"a-small-thought-about-rowan-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"A small thought about Rowan Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first conversation I ever had with him, he seemed nostalgic for the Orthodox church. He was, as a young man, attracted to Catholicism. Now he believes in the Anglican Communion: he has told the synod that he cannot give up this belief. What all these things have in common is a negative. He doesn’t believe in the Church of England. He doesn’t believe that a national<\/em> Christianity is possible or right.<\/p>\n\n

Some years ago, I made a joke about how, at the end of a century when intellectuals had sold their souls to every conceivable totalitarian ideology, he was the first to sell his to the Anglican Consultative Council. But I think we misunderstand his Christianity if we don’t see that it requires some kind of supranational body to make sense. American, liberal Christianity doesn’t. At least, for them, the USA <\/span>is<\/em> a supranational body. This is at the root of +RW’s policy towards them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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