Prefatory Note

PREFATORY NOTE

The Hughes-Cheong Lectureship Trust was established in 1943 in honour of two of the finest priests to have served St Peter’s Eastern Hill: Father Ernest Selwyn Hughes, and Father James Cheong. Under the auspices of the Trust, many of the world’s leading theologians have been brought to Australia to deliver lectures, seminars and sermons. It was the wish of the Trustees that the 2002 Lectureship be offered to the Archbishop of Wales, the Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams. As both of the priests honoured by the Trust were graduates of Trinity College, and as the visit by Archbishop Williams coincided with the Trinity College Theological School’s 125th anniversary, it was agreed that the two lectures would be delivered at Trinity College.

Thanks are due to the Trustees, and to the Revd Greg Seach who transcribed and edited the lectures.