Kyle Harrison
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Writing in the Dust
Writing in the Dust: After September 11
- Author
- Rowan Williams
- Published
- 2002
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Rowan Williams’s short book written after September 11 (Eerdmans, 2002). An excerpt (pp. 63–73) argues that turning other people into symbols, using them “to think with,” is the root of a violence that only shared grief undoes.
Where I heard about it
- Sunstone, December 2006: the excerpt ran as Using Others To Think With (Rowan Williams).
Connections
- Using Others To Think With (Rowan Williams) — the excerpt.