{"id":3504,"date":"2013-12-03T01:21:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T01:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.camruss.com\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2017-09-03T20:35:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-03T20:35:49","slug":"talks-by-the-rt-revd-dr-rowan-williams-archbishop-of-canterbury-2002-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/talks-by-the-rt-revd-dr-rowan-williams-archbishop-of-canterbury-2002-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Rationality: Dostoevsky and &#8216;holy fools&#8217;. Talk by The Rt Revd Dr Rowan Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.camruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Rowan_Williams.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3509 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.camruss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Rowan_Williams.jpg\" alt=\"Rowan_Williams\" width=\"186\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><strong>About the speaker:<\/strong> About the speaker: Dr Rowan Williams is widely known as a recent Archbishop of Canterbury &#8211; he held the office from 2002 till 2012. At present, he is the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and chair of the board of trustees of <em>Christian Aid<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is probably somewhat less known that Rowan Williams is a philospher and a poet, and has profound interest in great Russian novels (Dostoevsky&#8217;s &#8220;Brothers Karamazov&#8221; and &#8220;Devils&#8221;, and\u00a0Pasternak&#8217;s &#8220;Doctor Zhivago&#8221;, to name but a few)\u00a0and Russian religious philosophy, in particular Seregy Bulgakov. He recalls:<\/p>\n<p><em>It began in my teens. I read the great Russian novels, listened to the great composers, watched Eisenstein\u2019s films. I became intensely aware of an alien cultural presence on the other side of Europe which had a hinterland of imagery both odd and seductive. I moved from music and literature inexorably to Russian religious philosophy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In 2007,\u00a0Rowan Williams\u00a0published a book <strong>&#8220;Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Welsh,\u00a0he speaks or reads in nine other languages, including Russian!<\/p>\n<p>Dr William Rowan has strong Cambridge connections. He served as a parish priest at St George&#8217;s Church\u00a0in Chesteron (Cambridge) in 1980-1983, until he was appointed as a Lecturer in Divinity\u00a0at Cambridge University. In 1984-1986, he was\u00a0Dean and Chaplain of Clare College, Cambridge, and recently, having retired from the office of Archbishop of Canterbury, William Rowan has returned to Cambridge to become Master of Magdalene College.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to refer you to a very informative and insightful <a title=\"Interview with Rowan Williams\" href=\"http:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/magazine\/rowan-williams-dostoevsky-russian-literature-personalism-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Rowan Williams by Lesley Chamerlain in the Prospect magazine<\/a>,\u00a0exploring\u00a0his deep interest in Russian literature and philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>The talk will be followed by <strong>refreshments<\/strong> (juice, wine and nibbles) and informal <strong>discussions<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the speaker: About the speaker: Dr Rowan Williams is widely known as a recent Archbishop of Canterbury &#8211; he held the office from 2002 till 2012. At present, he is the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and chair of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/talks-by-the-rt-revd-dr-rowan-williams-archbishop-of-canterbury-2002-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-items"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}