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These reflections, gentle but piercing in their spiritual psychology, were originally given as an Easter retreat for the Community of the Holy Cross, an Anglican Benedictine convent, in 2018. With typical deftness, Rowan Williams both channels the insights of the Desert Fathers and quietly extends the defense of classical theism that he offered in Christ: The Heart of Creation, written around the same time. As I noted in First Things (“Briefly Noted,” April 2020),

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