Inside the mind of the Archbishop of Canterbury David Bentley Hart TLS
This is a review of a collection of theological essays by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
The reviewer notes that the Archbishop is undoubtedly smart: he apparently can read 7 languages other than English, and lecture in five. He has an impressively large bibliography, including 3 books of poetry.
Still, it is a common criticism that his use of language is simply too opaque to understand his actual position.
The point of this post is simply to note that it occurred to me that he is the Barry Jones of the ecclesiastic world: both highly intelligent and well intentioned, but their verbosity and circuitous approach to topics makes people actually avoid trying to understand them.
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