How old is Rowan Williams now?* Have his eyebrows been allowed to grow ever higher til they reach his hairline?
Well, that's a bitchy way to start talking about him, because despite his strong inclination towards the sort of modern Church of England waffle theology that tries to offend no one and ends up losing relevancy because of it, I have always had a soft spot for him. Let me search this blog to see if this is right - gosh, yes, I have mentioned him in posts a half dozen times over the years, and yeah, I had forgotten I once described him like this:
"...seems to be a philosopher who ended up a Church's world leader by accident. He's a nice enough sounding man, but one suspects he has helped more people out of his Church than into it."Anyway, here he is turning up in The Guardian to offer his review of Jordan Peterson's latest version of his version of "how to find modern meaning in the Bible without really believing anything in it happened or that there is necessarily a God".
I suppose, now that I think about, that there is something pretty common in their approaches - except that if I recall correctly, Williams did try to convince us that he really did believe that God (or something close to God - "ineffable transcendence" or some such, probably! - was real.)
I actually have been feeling the need to talk about the whole "how do we find meaning in the modern world" topic, but work is so busy today. Will come back to it soon....
*74 - about the age he has seemed for 20 years.
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