Rowan Williams

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Rowan Douglas Williams, DD, PC, FBA (born June 14, 1950) is the 104th and current Archbishop of Canterbury, metropolitan of the province of Canterbury, Primate of All England, senior archbishop of the Church of England and the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Williams is also a distinguished theologian and poet.

Whilst other church figures have denounced Philip Pullman for his atheist agenda, Williams has welcomed the His Dark Materials books and National Theatre production as a stimulus for thinking and debate about spiritual matters. In the hands of a competent teacher, he suggests, they are an invaluable educational resource.

External Links

The Dark Materials debate: life, God, the universe... Telegraph, 17 March 2004.

A near-miraculous triumph Archbishop Rowan Williams reveals how it felt to see religion savaged and God killed in His Dark Materials, Guardian, 10 March 2004.