
Living Free
H.A. Williams(Author)
Mowbray (Publisher)
Published on 17. December 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-906286-08-8 (ISBN)
Description
H.A. Williams' impact was astonishing - most remarkably through his published masterpiece, "The True Wilderness". During the last decades of his life he was often asked to publish more, but refused. After his death in January 2006, a typescript was found in his desk which he had been working on during these years and which we are now proud to publish. Along with this, "Living Free" contains a number of other unpublished writings of great significance.Quoting Martin Buber's dictum that 'there is nothing that so masks the face of God as religion', Williams moves beyond traditional theological language to outline a new view which does not contradict Christian orthodoxy but moves beyond it. He is doubtful about a personal relationship between God and man in Christ, in the usual sense, but articulates an epistemology of un-knowing as the most profound way of experiencing God.Williams himself once said of his writings 'All I can write of are those things which I had proved true in my own experience by living them and thus knowing them at first hand.' "Living Free" is a further demonstration of Williams' extraordinary vision and imagination.'
His heartening and profoundly sympathetic insight into our humanity and into the relationship between God and man - what he called "our identity with Life Universal, with God" - will live on through the power and presence of his words.' - from the foreword by H.R.H, The Prince of Wales.
His heartening and profoundly sympathetic insight into our humanity and into the relationship between God and man - what he called "our identity with Life Universal, with God" - will live on through the power and presence of his words.' - from the foreword by H.R.H, The Prince of Wales.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-906286-08-8 (9781906286088)
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Person
H.A. Williams was born in 1919 and was Fellow and Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge until 1969 when he joined the Anglican Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield, West Yorkshire. He is the author of The Joy of God, The True Wilderness and True Resurrection (all published by Continuum). He died in January 2006.
Content
Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales; Publisher's Preface; 1. Living Free; 2. Change; 3 A Rose with Any Other Name; 4. A Wedding Address; 5. Sheep and Goats.