An interview with Rowan Williams

Abstract

Living and working on the margins of society in sixteenth-century Spain, Teresa of Avila was an extraordinarily gifted writer, mystic and reformer. In conversation, Rowan Williams elucidates some of the most complex and difficult aspects of Teresa's life and work: her self-representation and the silences in her narrative; the reality of her transcendent experience; and the interpersonal, societal and gender relations implicit in her body of work.