Real Presence

In Search of the Earliest Icons

AvSister Wendy Beckett

E-bok

Engelska, 2013

135 kr

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Beskrivning

A powerful devotional study of all existing pre-Iconoclastic icons that are still readable.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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-01-31
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:144
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441192325
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

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 cloistered life, devoted to prayer.

Recensioner i media

'Sister Wendy has a poet's ear and writes very tenderly about the significance of these extraordinary early artefacts.' -- Good Book Guide '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.' -- CR Quarterly Review 'This is a short, readable, but not at all superficial book.' -- The Franciscan Sister Wendy has a poet's ear and writes tenderly about the significance of early icons. -- Good Book Guide ...gorgeously illustrated... -- Theological Book Review Volume 23 No.1 Listed in the 'New Titles Just Published' section -- Church Times 'This book is descriptive and devotional...to have the whole range of these icons considered in one place is a gift indeed.' -- The Church Times Books for Christmas Supplement '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.' -- Methodist Recorder Reviewed in the Church of England Newspaper Church of England Newspaper