Ponder These Things: Praying With Icons Of The Virgin

Book Summary


Williams invites readers to explore and reflect on the depths of meaning in three classic icons of the Virgin and her Child from the Eastern Christian tradition. What we call holy in the world ? a person, a place, a set of words or pictures ? is so because the completely foreign is brought together with the familiar and the everyday. No one embodies this more than Mary, who literally makes a home for the Creator of all things in her own body and in her own house ? the strangest reality we can conceive. Ponder These Things invites readers to explore and reflect on the depths of meaning in three classic icons of the Virgin and her Child from the Eastern Christian tradition. Icons have been described as ?theology in line and color? and, in tracing the movement within these icons, The Archbishop of Canterbury discovers the pattern of love that they reveal, a love that invites and embraces us so that we no longer remain as spectators, but find ourselves caught up in the drama that unfolds itself before us.

Book Details


Book Name Ponder These Things: Praying With Icons Of The Virgin
Author Rowan Williams
Publisher Paraclete Press (ma) (Aug 2006)
ISBN 9781557255099
Pages 73
Language English
Price 618
 
 

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