Real Presence (inbunden)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
140
Utgivningsdatum
2010-11-04
Förlag
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Illustratör/Fotograf
55 colour illustrations
Illustrationer
55 colour illustrations
Dimensioner
224 x 177 x 17 mm
Vikt
382 g
ISBN
9781441158871

Real Presence

Sister Wendy on the Earliest Icons

av Sister Wendy Beckett
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2010-11-04

Slutsåld

This is a powerful devotional study of all existing pre-Iconoclastic icons that are still readable. In "Encounters with God Sister", Wendy Beckett traveled 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 with 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. Sister Wendy journeys to the heart of the great treasure-house of pre-Iconoclastic icons at Mt. Sinai to celebrate its unique historical and spiritual value, and to reveal the spirituality and devotional practices of our ancestors. Prayerful and heartfelt, "Real Presence" offers everyone 'a taste of the spiritual happiness that is there for the asking, for the seeking, for attention'.
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Sister Wendy became a nun at the age of 16, went on to live for nearly 20 years as a hermit, and then was exposed to the world in a successful television career as the 'art nun'. She is the author of over 20 books with art as the main theme. She continues to live a largely cloistered life, devoted to prayer.

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