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Solidarity, Communion, and the City of God: Rowan Williams at the Morningside Institute

Solidarity, Communion, and the City of God: Rowan Williams at the Morningside Institute

Update: 2025-09-23
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Solidarity is a much-used, not to say over-used, slogan these days, both in Catholic Social Teaching and in popular activism. Does it have a clear meaning or is it just an emotive term? In this lecture, Rowan Williams argues that in the context of Christian theology, as St. Augustine's City of God suggests, it does indeed have a strong and distinctive meaning that challenges a lot of what we (Christians and others) assume about human life in society today, raising questions about the common good, common work, and the risks of looking for common enemies.

On Monday, September 8, Morningside and the Earl Hall Center for Religious Life at Columbia welcomed the Rt. Rev. Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, for a lecture on solidarity and the City of God in Columbia University’s Pulitzer Hall lecture room.
















































































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Watch the talk’s live-stream: https://youtu.be/AigmPsVWSD8

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Solidarity, Communion, and the City of God: Rowan Williams at the Morningside Institute

Solidarity, Communion, and the City of God: Rowan Williams at the Morningside Institute

Nathaniel Ijams