Born 1950
D.Phil, Oxford (1975) D.D. (Cambridge, 2006)
Lecturer in Divinity, Cambridge (1980-1986)
Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Oxford (1986-1992)
Bishop of Monmouth (1992-2000)
Archbishop of Wales (2000-2003) Archbishop of Canterbury (2003-2012)
2002 Richard Dimbleby Lecture
2005 Clark Lectures, Cambridge: 'Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist' published as Grace and Necessity
2014 Gifford Lectures, Edinburgh: The Edge of Words
2016 Hulsean Lectures, Cambridge: Christ the Heart of Creation
Major Works
The Wound of Knowledge: Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to St John of the Cross (DLT, 1979, 2nd ed. 1990)
Resurrection: Interpreting the Easter Gospel (DLT, 1982)
The Truce of God: Peacemaking in Trouble Times (1983, Canterbury, 2005)
Arius: Heresy and Tradition (DLT, 1987; 2nd edn SCM Press, 2001)
(ed.) The Making of Orthodoxy: Essays in Honour of Henry Chadwick (Cambridge, 1989, 2002)
Teresa of Avila (Geoffrey Chapman, 1991, Continuum, new ed. 2000)
Open to Judgement: Sermons and Addresses (DLT, 1994)
Christ on Trial: How the Gospel Unsettles Our Judgement (Fount, 2000)
Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement (T&T Clark, 2000)
(ed.) Sergii Bulgakov: Towards a Russian Political Theology (T & T Clark, 2000)
On Christian Theology (Blackwell, 2000)
Writing in the Dust: Reflections on 11th September and Its Aftermath (Hodder and Stoughton, 2002)
Anglican Identities (DLT, 2004)
Why Study the Past? The Quest for the Historical Church (DLT, 2005)
Grace and Necessity: Reflections on Art and Love (T & T Clark, 2005)
Wrestling with Angels: Conversations in Modern Theology (ed.) by Mike Higton (Eerdmans, 2007)
Dostoevsky: Language, Faith and Fiction (Continuum, 2009)
Faith in the Public Square (Bloomsbury, 2012)
A Silent Action: Engagements with Thomas Merton (2013)
The Edge of Words: God and the Habits of Language (Bloomsbury, 2014)
On Augustine (Bloomsbury, 2016)
The Tragic Imagination: The Literary Agenda (Oxford, 2016)
Christ The Heart of Creation (Bloomsbury, 2018)
The Way of Saint Benedict (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Looking East in Winter:
Popular Works
Silence and Honeycakes (2004)
Tokens of Trust: An Introduction to Christian Belief (Canterbury, 2007)
Meeting God in Mark (SPCK, 2012)
The Lion's World: A Journey into Narnia (SPCK, 2012)
Choose Life (Bloomsbury, 2013)
Being Christian (SPCK, 2014)
Meeting God in Paul (SPCK, 2014)
Being Disciples (SPCK, 2016)
God With Us (SPCK, 2017)
Holy Living (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Being Human (SPCK, 2018)
Luminaries (SPCK, 2019)
Candles in the Dark (SPCK, 2020)
See also:
Rowan Williams: An Introduction by Rupert Shortt (DLT, 2003)
Difficult Gospel: The Theology of Rowan Williams by Mike Higton (SCM, 2004)
Rowan's Rule by Rupert Shortt (Hodder & Stoughton, 2009)
Christ The Stranger: The Theology of Rowan Williams by Benjamin Myers (T & T Clark, 2012)
Jesus in the Theology of Rowan Williams by Brett Gray (T & T Clark, 2016)
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