Sparkle from the Coal

The Rev’d Dr Barbara Howard is a tutor at the Sydney College of Divinity and is a Pastoral Supervisor and Education Consultant with the New South Wales  College of Clinical Pastoral Education.

• Preface viiIntroduction 1Part One: Imagination: Its Nature and Operation 211 Imagination 232 Symbolization: Meaning-making 453 Analogy and the Structure of Reality 62Part Two: Desire in Williams’ Theology 794 Divine Desire 815 Human Desire 996 The Church and the Transformation of Desire 119Part Three: Imagination in the Work of Rowan Williams 1397 Language in a Communicative Universe 1418 Poiesis I: ‘Making Other’ 1579 Poiesis II: ‘Making Strange’ 17610 Rowan Williams’ Theology of Imagination 198Conclusion 215Afterword: The Sparkle from the Coal 220Felin Uchaf: Poetry in the Roundhouse 220Bibliography 223Index 239

"Incorporating a rare and important attention to Rowan Williams's poetry alongside his other writings, this book ranges admirably across his vast oeuvre in pursuit of a distilled account of his theology of imagination, and culminates with a consideration of the close relation between imagination and holiness."