{"id":5975,"date":"2017-09-03T20:56:36","date_gmt":"2017-09-03T20:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.camruss.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=5975"},"modified":"2017-10-10T20:56:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T20:56:38","slug":"beyond-reality-dostoevsky-and-holly-fools-talk-by-dr-rowan-williams","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/events\/beyond-reality-dostoevsky-and-holly-fools-talk-by-dr-rowan-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Reality: Dostoevsky and ‘Holy Fools’. Talk by Dr Rowan Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Rowan Williams is widely known as a recent Archbishop of Canterbury – 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 Christian Aid<\/em><\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n

However, it is probably somewhat less known that Rowan Williams is a philosopher and a poet, and has profound interest in great Russian novels (Dostoevsky’s “Brothers Karamazov” and “Demons”, and Pasternak’s “Doctor Zhivago”, to name but a few) and Russian religious philosophy, in particular Sergey Bulgakov. He recalls:<\/p>\n

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

In 2007, Rowan Williams published a book “Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Apart from Welsh, he speaks or reads in nine other languages, including Russian!<\/p>\n

Dr Rowan Williams has strong Cambridge connections. He read theology at Christ’s College, Cambridge; worked as a tutor, chaplain and Director of Studies at Westcott House (1977-1980), and then served as a parish priest at St George’s Church in Chesterton (Cambridge) in 1980-1983, until he was appointed as a Lecturer in Divinity at Cambridge University. In 1984-1986, he was Dean and Chaplain of Clare College, Cambridge, and recently, having retired from the office of Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams returned to Cambridge to become Master of Magdalene College.<\/p>\n

We would like to refer you to a very informative and insightful interview with Rowan Williams by Lesley Chamerlain in the Prospect magazine<\/a>, exploring his deep interest in Russian literature and philosophy.<\/p>\n

Language: English<\/p>\n

Entrance: CamRuSS members free, students \u00a33, others \u00a35
\n(no need to book – please pay on the door)
\nThe talk will be followed by refreshments<\/strong> (juice, wine and nibbles) and an informal discussion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Everyone is very welcome!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Rowan Williams is widely known as a recent Archbishop of Canterbury – 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 Christian Aid. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-5975","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/5975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"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=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/5975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camruss.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}