Rowan Williams on Attention and Memory in the Spiritual Life
In a series of recent articles, including his Boyle Lecture, Rowan Williams has developed a theology of the role of intelligence and attention in spiritual life. There is a sense in which all intelligence is spiritual activity. Current approaches to intelligence are often mechanistic, but intelligen...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2023
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Zygon
Year: 2023, Volume: 58, Issue: 4, Pages: 1117-1126 |
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Participation
B Intelligence B Attention B Spiritual B Embodiment B Spirit |
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| Summary: | In a series of recent articles, including his Boyle Lecture, Rowan Williams has developed a theology of the role of intelligence and attention in spiritual life. There is a sense in which all intelligence is spiritual activity. Current approaches to intelligence are often mechanistic, but intelligence in spiritual life needs to be understood in a more embodied and organic way. Attention is often thought of as a matter of choosing which already-formed objects to focus on. That overlooks the fact that sensory information is often confusing and ambiguous, and neglects how habits of attention make the world appear more atomized than it really is. If we can learn restraint in how we impose order upon the world around us in attending to it, there is an opportunity to encounter the divine Spirit which is the source of all that we experience. That leads to a more participatory, less objectifying, way of engaging with the world. |
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| Item Description: | With Rowan Williams, "Attending to Attention"; John D. Teasdale, "Reshaping the Heart-Mind: A Response to Rowan Williams"; and Fraser Watts, "Rowan Williams on Attention and Intelligence in the Spiritual Life." |
| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Reference: | Kritik von "Reshaping the Heart-Mind (2023)"
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12921 |