Ponder These Things: Praying With Icons of the Virgin - Hardcover

Williams, Rowan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1580511244 ISBN 13: 9781580511247

Publisher: Sheed & Ward, 2002

Synopsis

This beautifully illustrated book invites modern-day pilgrims and people of prayer to think about some of the different ways in which Mary is regularly portrayed in the art of Eastern Christianity. Specifically, it explores three of the most common yet theologically rich images of the Holy Virgin—She Who Points the Way or Hodegetria, The Virgin of Loving Kindness or Eleousa, and The Virgin of the Sign or Oranta—all of which serve as a wonderful springboard for theological and personal reflection.

About this title

About the Author:

Rowan Williams is a world-renowned scholar of theology and spirituality. He is currently the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

"These meditations are really about how we are led by faith both to live in the world, fully flesh and blood in it, and at the same time to be aware of the utter strangeness of God that waits in the heart of what is familiar-as if the world were always on the edge of some total revolution, pregnant with a different kind of life, and we were always trying to catch the blinding momentary light of its changing. That is what any icon sets out to embody and transmit. We, watching and waiting for Christ to come more fully to birth in us, are waiting for our lives to become 'iconic,' to show in their color and line and movement how God acts, Christlike, in us." -from the Introduction

About this edition

• Publisher: Sheed & Ward
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1580511244
• ISBN 13: 9781580511247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96