Ponder These Things Praying with Icons of the Virgin

Name: Ponder These Things Praying with Icons of the Virgin
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ISBN: 9781557255099

ISBN-10: 1557255091

ISBN-13: 9781557255099

Edition: 2006

Authors: Rowan Williams, Kallistos Ware

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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…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Paraclete Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 74
Size: 5.00" wide x 6.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Rowan Williams is Archbishop of Wales.



Foreword



Introduction


The One Who Points the Way - The Hodegetria


The Virgin of Loving Kindness - The Eleousa


The Virgin of the Sign - The Orans


Weaving Scarlet and Purple - A Legend of Mary


Epilogue