ISBN: 0826494692 9780826494696

Category: Religion / Devotional

Page count: 167

<br><p>H.A. Williams' impact was astonishing - most remarkably through his published masterpiece <i>The True Wilderness</i>.<br>During the last decades of his life he was often asked to publish more,<br>but refused. After his death in January 2006, a typescript was found in<br>his desk which he had been working on during these years and which we<br>are now proud to publish. Along with this, <i>Living Free</i> contains a number of other unpublished writings of great significance.</p><br><p>Quoting Martin Buber's dictum that ‘there is nothing that so masks<br>the face of God as religion', Williams moves beyond traditional<br>theological language to outline a new view which does not contradict<br>Christian orthodoxy but moves beyond it. He is doubtful about a<br>personal relationship between God and man in Christ, in the usual<br>sense, but articulates an epistemology of un-knowing as the most<br>profound way of experiencing God.</p><br><p>Williams himself once said of his writings ‘All I can write of are<br>those things which I had proved true in my own experience by living<br>them and thus knowing them at first hand.' <i>Living Free</i> is a further demonstration of Williams' extraordinary vision and imagination.</p><br><p>‘His heartening and profoundly sympathetic insight into our humanity<br>and into the relationship between God and man - what he called &quot;our<br>identity with Life Universal, with God&quot; - will live on through the<br>power and presence of his words.' - from the foreword by H.R.H The<br>Prince of Wales</p><br>