by Madeleine Davies, Church TimesFormer Archbishop of Canterbury was delivering a lecture in memory of Rabbi Lord SacksTHE Holocaust and the attempt to destroy Jewish witness represent a “revolt against something of unique spiritual importance”, and should not be reduced to generalities about intolerance and racism, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Williams told a gathering at King’s College, London, this month. It had become an instance of something: intolerance and prejudice. “Jewish particularism is a sign of human action and interaction pervaded by a sense of conscious awe, by the expectation of finding significant life in every moment. It is a sign of what shared human life might look like in a world where transaction did not have the last word. The paradoxical twist in affirming Jewish particularity is precisely that it affirms the absolute commitment of God to every life in its unique location and ecosystem, and indeed every material element of the creation.”Read here