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Rowan Williams has served as Archbishop of Canterbury through one of the most turbulent periods in the history of global Anglicanism. He has also faced numerous challenges within the Church of Engl...
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  • 02 January 2013
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Rowan Williams has served as Archbishop of Canterbury through one of the most turbulent periods in the history of global Anglicanism. He has also faced numerous challenges within the Church of England. How has he coped with the huge issues of a divided church and a rapidly changing world? What has he done as archbishop when parts of the church are campaigning for an inclusive church with gay-partnered clergy and women bishops, while others are determined to resist these developments? How has he related to other Christian traditions and those of other faiths? What has he said about the Iraq war, the financial crash, Sharia Law? In this fascinating assessment, Andrew Goddard surveys Archbishop Rowan's time in office. Goddard draws on Williams' speeches and writings, as well as interviews and comments from those who have worked with him. This book shows the pressures faced by an academic scholar who only took on this demanding role because he believed it to be God's call. What sort of leader has he been, and what sort of legacy does he leave for his successor, Justin Welby?
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Pages: 336
Publisher: SPCK
Imprint: Lion Books
Publication Date: 02 January 2013
ISBN: 9780745957623
Format: eBook
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Andrew Goddard teaches Ethics at Trinity College, Bristol, and also works closely with the Anglican Communion.

Contents
PREFACE 7
1 The Making of an Archbishop 12
2 A New Archbishop of Canterbury 38
3 Mission-Shaped Church and Fresh Expressions 49
4 Leader in Mission 62
5 Capturing the Imaginat ion 76
6 The Reading Crisis and Sexuality Debate s 89
7 W omen Bishops 113
8 Canterbury and the Anglican Communion 135
9 Cracking Communion? 1. The Windsor Pat h 151
10 Cracking Communion? 2. Lambeth, Indaba, a nd the Future 174
11 Anglicanism and Other Churches 188
12 Anglicanism and Other Faiths 208
13 The Sharia Lecture and Interactive Pluralism 226
14 “Doing God”: Society and Politics 241
15 Be ing a Priest and a Bishop 271
Notes 315
INDEX 332