SHADOW GOSPEL
Rowan Williams and the Anglican Communion Crisis
By Charles Raven. The Latimer Trust. 176 pages. £6.99
ISBN 978-0-946307-78-4
The works of Rowan Williams could hardly, by any measure, be described as an ‘easy read’. Perhaps this is why, even among evangelicals, opinion is divided as to the orthodoxy, or otherwise, of his views.
Thus a leading evangelical of my acquaintance recently expressed the opinion that ‘only those who have engaged in a very cursory (or an extraordinarily picky) reading’ of the works of Rowan Williams could believe that he was ‘selling the Christian faith down the river’. And put that baldly, I would have to agree. But then there are very few on the liberal wing of the Church of England who could nevertheless be accused of engaging in a deliberate betrayal of the gospel.
