Interior intimo meo : Rowan Williams on the self
Date
2018
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Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust
Abstract
In this essay we discuss Williams’s notion of the self as a social mediation. The argument
is made that from early on Williams was influenced by different streams of thought
that directed him to analogous conclusions regarding language and personhood. I
will show that through internalizing of Augustine, Wittgensteinian philosophy and
certain strands of Eastern Orthodox thought, Williams came to an understanding of
language that was grounded in the particulars of human interaction, one that is finally
kenotic since the imago dei is reflective of the imago trinitatis. It is within this context
that one should place Williams own relationally-centred, non-egocentric construal of
human personhood that finds its centre in the dynamic exteriority of love.
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CITATION: Delport, K. M. 2018. Interior intimo meo : Rowan Williams on the self. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 4(2):471-504, doi:10.17570/stj.2018.v4n2.a22.
The original publication is available at https://ojs.reformedjournals.co.za/stj
The original publication is available at https://ojs.reformedjournals.co.za/stj
Keywords
Williams, Rowan, 1950-
Citation
Delport, K. M. 2018. Interior intimo meo : Rowan Williams on the self. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 4(2):471-504, doi:10.17570/stj.2018.v4n2.a22