H.A. Williams' impact was astonishing - most remarkably through his published masterpiece The True Wilderness.
During the last decades of his life he was often asked to publish more,
but refused. After his death in January 2006, a typescript was found in
his desk which he had been working on during these years and which we
are now proud to publish. Along with this, Living Free contains a number of other unpublished writings of great significance.
Quoting Martin Buber's dictum that ‘there is nothing that so masks
the face of God as religion', Williams moves beyond traditional
theological language to outline a new view which does not contradict
Christian orthodoxy but moves beyond it. He is doubtful about a
personal relationship between God and man in Christ, in the usual
sense, but articulates an epistemology of un-knowing as the most
profound way of experiencing God.
Williams himself once said of his writings ‘All I can write of are
those things which I had proved true in my own experience by living
them and thus knowing them at first hand.' Living Free is a further demonstration of Williams' extraordinary vision and imagination.
‘His heartening and profoundly sympathetic insight into our humanity
and into the relationship between God and man - what he called "our
identity with Life Universal, with God" - will live on through the
power and presence of his words.' - from the foreword by H.R.H The
Prince of Wales
