To portray his thinking demands getting behind Dr Williams’s seemingly careful obscurity and (in the words of an academic mentor, Donald MacKinnon) his “tendency to substitute revery for hard analysis”.
The private man has now also to uphold public policies with the making of which he might not have agreed. As Lord Harries, the former Bishop of Oxford, told him: “God has given you all the gifts and, as your punishment, he has made you Archbishop of Canterbury.”
I shouldn’t be surprised that Archbisop Williams will, after his retirement, go the the Roman Catholic Church.
Ro