{"id":10009,"date":"2008-12-07T01:29:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T01:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christopher_howse_the_enigmatic_life_of_rowan_williams_archbishop_of_canter\/"},"modified":"2008-12-07T01:29:26","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T01:29:26","slug":"christopher_howse_the_enigmatic_life_of_rowan_williams_archbishop_of_canter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10009","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Howse:  The Enigmatic life of Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To portray his thinking demands getting behind Dr Williams&#8217;s seemingly careful obscurity and (in the words of an academic mentor, Donald MacKinnon) his &#8220;tendency to substitute revery for hard analysis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>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: &#8220;God has given you all the gifts and, as your punishment, he has made you Archbishop of Canterbury.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2008\/12\/06\/do0609.xml\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To portray his thinking demands getting behind Dr Williams&#8217;s seemingly careful obscurity and (in the words of an academic mentor, Donald MacKinnon) his &#8220;tendency to substitute revery for hard analysis&#8221;. The private man has now also to uphold public policies<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10009\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,67,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}