Real Presence: In Search of the Earliest Icons - Couverture rigide

Beckett, Wendy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1570758980 ISBN 13 : 9781570758980

Editeur : Orbis Books, 2010

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Sister Wendy has a poet's ear and writes very tenderly about the significance of these extraordinary early artefacts.',Describing in words things heavenly and divine is a task which she tackles commendably as she brings to this book a synthesis of her life in religious profession and her aptitudes as an art historian.',This is a short, readable, but not at all superficial book.',Sister Wendy has a poet's ear and writes tenderly about the significance of early icons.,...gorgeously illustrated...,Listed in the 'New Titles Just Published' section,'This book is descriptive and devotional...to have the whole range of these icons considered in one place is a gift indeed.',Prayerful and heartfelt Real Presence engages with the spiritual imagination of the early Church, giving insight into all the emotion and drama of early Christianity, and readers will find their own faith enriched.',Reviewed in the Church of England Newspaper --Good Book Guide

'...gorgeously illustrated...' --Theological Book Review Volume 23 No.1

Présentation de l'éditeur

In Encounters with God Sister Wendy Beckett travelled to remote churches and monasteries to view the earliest icons of Mary. In Real Presence she resumes this journey to see additional early icons of Jesus and the saints icons that are among the few to survive the wholesale destruction of icons in the early eighth century. In contrast to the familiar and magnificent icons of later history, these early icons have a haunting simplicity and unfamiliar spiritual power. They come to us from a time closer to that of Christ, when faith was still alive with wonder and possibilities, and these images, a vehicle for prayer, can truly convey his real presence. Prayerful and heartfelt, Real Presence engages with the spiritual imagination of the early church, giving insight into all the emotion and drama of early Christianity and, in so doing, deepens our understanding of faith lived out today.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Orbis Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1570758980
• ISBN 13: 9781570758980
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 138
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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