Truth that brings abundance humanism and the renewal of Catholicity in Rowan Williams

In this article, I explore the notion of catholicity in relation to the meaning of humanity in two different models. I begin with a section on the need for a new concept of catholicity. The late Catholic theologian Robert J. Schreiter reminded us of this need to face the pressing challenges of globalization today. Then, I suggest that a future concept of catholicity should be more theologically grounded in the qualitative sense than Schreiter’s proposed globalized model. My argument is that we can find a helpful concept of catholicity in the qualitative model of Anglican theologian Rowan Williams. His approach draws on different theologians in the twentieth century who clarified catholicity’s qualitative sense and its strict relation to anthropology. Most of the paper will be dedicated to Williams’ qualitative sense of catholicity as the wholeness of truth. In the next section, I will present three features of Williams’ understanding of catholicity as personalist, paradoxical, and Christological. Finally, I will show some of the practical implications of Williams’ reflections.