‘As we contemplate the coming months, not knowing when we can breathe again, it’s worth thinking about how already the foundations have been laid for whatever new opportunities God has for us on the far side of this crisis.’ Rowan Williams offers these words of wisdom and many more in Candles in the... (more)

Almost every novel, song, poem, artwork, joke and story ask the same question: what does it mean to be human? In it there are all sorts of issues about identity, consciousness, free-will, maturity, memory, and experience. And it is amongst these questions that Rowan Williams has written a guide... (more)

The Lion's World is a brief but immnesely thought provoking exploration of |Lewis and his imaginative World.

Rowan Williams, writing in partnership with the bestselling American Benedictine author, Joan Chittister, explores the meaning of a word often spoken in Christian worship, but rarely considered. What are we doing when we say the word 'Alleluia'? In the Old Testament, it is a summons to praise - when... (more)

Enables readers to consider the nature of God in the 21st Century through the lens of Dostoevsky's novels.

Rowan Williams explores the intricacies of speech, fiction, metaphor, and iconography in the works of one of literature's most complex, and most complexly misunderstood, authors. Williams' investigation focuses on the four major novels of Dostoevsky's maturity (Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Devil... (more)

Following the enormous success of Ponder These Things and The Dwelling of the Light here is the long awaited popular new book from the Archbishop of Canterbury. He explores the great statements of belief as they are found in the Creed and weighs them up in relation to the challenges and complexit... (more)

The Lord's Prayer must be the world's most well known Christian prayer. Its words are used by Christians of all denominations living on every continent and it is one of the few prayers that most believers know by heart. In this book - based on a "Songs of Praise" programme broadcast in 2005 - Archbi... (more)

This most original new book by Rowan Williams sketches out a new theological aesthetic or, put more simply, a new understanding of how human beings open themselves to transcendence. In describing an aesthetic of transcendence, Dr Williams draws on three key influences: the French Catholic philosophe... (more)

This book was first published over 20 years ago as a Lent book, but has now been completed revised and repackaged. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, discusses the causes, effects and proper Christian response to the violence that pervades every area of daily life - from popular entertainmen... (more)