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'Rowan Williams is one of the great theologians of our time. He is also an inspiring teacher whose godly wisdom helps us understand profound truths.' Nicky Gumbel
Starting in the first century with St Paul and ending in the twentieth with St Oscar Romero, Rowan Williams invites you to reflect with him on the lives and legacies of twenty great Christians – saints, martyrs, poets, theologians and social reformers. Their stories and writings have profoundly influenced his own life and thought, and this sequence of short reflections is sure to sharpen your theological vision and cast a fresh light on what it means to live and breathe the gospel.
Included among these 'luminaries' are Augustine of Hippo, William Tyndale, Teresa of Avila, Charles Dickens, Florence Nightingale, Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Simone Weil,
Let these brilliant meditations light your way as you follow the footsteps of the faithful who have gone before.
Introduction
St Paul (c.5-c.67)
A man of passions
St Alban (third century)
The duty of a Christian
St Augustine of Hippo (354-430)
Teacher of the inner life
St Augustine of Canterbury (c.530-604)
Apostle to the English
St Anselm of Canterbury (c.1033-1109)
The justice of God
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
The mystery of Godness
Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556)
'The word of God is not bound'
William Tyndale (1494-1536)
God and the economy of debt
St Teresa of Avila (1515-82)
A lived theology
John Milton (1608-74)
From heroism to fidelity
William Wilberforce (1759-1833)
The moral state
Charles Dickens (1812-70)
The truth of exaggeration
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
The light of life
Sergei Bulgakov (1871-1944)
Politics, art and prayer
Edith Stein (1891-1942)
Thinking in solidarity
Michael Ramsey (1904-88)
True humanism
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-45)
Freedom, necessity and glory
Simone Weil (1909-43)
Waiting on God
Etty Hillesum (1914-43)
A compulsion to kneel
St Oscar Romero (1917-80)
God has injected himself into history