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Shortt argues that in the areas of politics and economics Williams is not as sophisticated as he is when on his home turf of theology. As Shortt notes, the ordination of women and openly gay clergy are knotted questions, due to the issues they raise with regard to biblical authority (especially important for Evangelicals) and ecumenical relations (problematic for Anglo-Catholics within the Anglican Communion and for Rome and the Eastern churches outside it). [...] a strategy is based not on a fear of confrontation or what some critics regard as Anglican wishy-washiness, he continues, but a reflection of Williams's conviction that orthodox belief can never be fully fixed in human language and that the task of theology is to continue seeking the mind of God for the life of the church.
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Is He Fit?
Is He Fit? Rowan's Rule The Biography of the Archbishop of Canterbury Rupert Shortt Wm. B. Eerdmans, $30, 344 pp.
Rowan's Rule is Rupert Shortt's second book on Rowan Williams, the 104th archbishop of Canterbury. His first was Rowan Williams: An Introduction (Darton Longman and Todd, 2003). Following that book Shortt undertook a profile of the pope, Benedict XVi: Commander of the Faith (Hodder & Stoughton, 2005), and God's Advocates: Christhn Thinkers in Conver...See the full content of this document
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