For Its Own Sake

The New Statesman interviews Rowan Williams:

If religion is pushed into private spaces, as increasingly it tends tobe by our public discourse, we lose one of the most emotionally andimaginatively resourceful ways of seeing human behaviour; we losesomething of the sense that certain acts may be good independently ofwhether they are sensible or successful in the world's terms. I supposeyou could say that we lose the "contemplative" dimension to ethics, thebelief that some things are worth...

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Published on July 25, 2010 06:19
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