Saints in public: Holy lives and the function of theological speech in the political theology of Rowan Williams
This article explores the way Rowan Williams understands saints as theo-politically significant. By surveying a number of key texts by Williams in different genres, the author argues that the saints for Williams are highly important for his political theology. For him, the saints make a political th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2021
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Studia theologica
Year: 2021, Volume: 75, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-163 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KCD Hagiography; saints |
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| Summary: | This article explores the way Rowan Williams understands saints as theo-politically significant. By surveying a number of key texts by Williams in different genres, the author argues that the saints for Williams are highly important for his political theology. For him, the saints make a political theology possible, since they witness to the world as rooted in Gods will. This, in turn, is significant for understanding how theological language works, since it goes beyond the limits of “realistic” discourse, bound by a certain secular understanding of the way the world “is”. The significance of this feature of theological language is demonstrated by discussing texts by Martin Hägglund and Theo Hobson. |
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| ISSN: | 1502-7791 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studia theologica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0039338X.2021.1939153 |