Finished reading: The Edge of Words by Rowan Williams 📚
A stunning, mind-bending achievement. There is immense apologetic value here, though it is not straightforwardly a work of apologetics. Indeed, the best comparison to Williams' argument (at least, the one that comes immediately to mind) is from David Bentley Hart’s The Experience of God. Neither author argues directly for the existence of God, yet both books provide rather powerful (if oblique) arguments for God’s existence. Hart’s argument focuses on three “moments” in our experience of reality (being, consciousness, bliss) as pointers to the fundamental reality of God. Williams, meanwhile, focuses on language, particularly the peculiarities of language. I’m no prophet, but I can say with confidence that I’ll be reading Rowan Williams for the rest of my life.