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Rowan Williams has been reading too much Wittgenstein

A review of ‘The Edge of Words: God and the Habits of Language’, by Rowan Williams. Atheists have nothing to fear from this attempt to find a proof for God in linguistic philosophy

Dr Rowan Williams, then Archbishop of Canterbury, waits to greet the Pope in 2010. Photo: Chris Ison/PA Wire 
issue 27 September 2014
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  • The Edge of Words: God and the Habits of Language

    Rowan Williams

    Bloomsbury, pp. 224

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