Food for Thought
In a 2012 speech to the world Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion said that “contemplation is very far from being just one kind of thing that Christians do.”
Dec 11, 2015
In a 2012 speech to the world Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion said that “contemplation is very far from being just one kind of thing that Christians do.”
Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, England, said that contemplation “is the key to prayer, liturgy, art and ethics, the key to the essence of a renewed humanity that is capable of seeing the world, and other subjects in the world, with freedom — freedom from selforiented, acquisitive habits and the distorted understanding that comes from them.”
He added, “To put it boldly, contemplation is the only ultimate answer to the unreal and insane world that our financial systems, and our advertising culture, and our chaotic and unexamined emotions encourage us to inhabit. To learn contemplative practice is to learn what we need so as to live truthfully and honestly and lovingly. It is a deeply revolutionary matter.”
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