DESPITE GROWING interest in spirituality, the Archbishop of Canterbury has stressed that traditional religious allegiance is still essential for society.Dr Rowan Williams, delivering a lecture as part of Westminster Cathedral’s Faith and Life in Britain series, argued for the continued relevance of traditional commitment in society, saying it would ‘deeply enrich’ any responsible pluralist society.
“When the great German philosopher Jurgen Habermas acknowledged some years ago in debate with the then Cardinal Ratzinger that traditional religion offered necessary resources to the construction of social reason and just practice, he was paving the way for some such approach on the part of secular government,” the Archbishop stated.
“There is an implicit acknowledgement, it seems, that what religious affiliation of a classical kind offers is not to be reduced just to an enhanced sense of the transcendent or of the interconnection of all things.”
Dr Williams also argued that religion is “one of the most potent allies possible for genuine pluralism”.
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