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Looking East in Winter - Contemporary Thought and the Eastern Christian Tradition (Hardcover)
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Looking East in Winter - Contemporary Thought and the Eastern Christian Tradition (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R542
Discovery Miles 5 420
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In many ways, we seem to be living in wintry times at present in
the Western world. In this new book, Rowan Williams, former
Archbishop of Canterbury and a noted scholar of Eastern
Christianity, introduces us to some aspects and personalities of
the Orthodox Christian world, from the desert contemplatives of the
fourth century to philosophers, novelists and activists of the
modern era, that suggest where we might look for fresh light and
warmth. He shows how this rich and diverse world opens up new ways
of thinking about spirit and body, prayer and action, worship and
social transformation, which go beyond the polarisations we take
for granted. Taking in the world of the great spiritual anthology,
the Philokalia, and the explorations of Russian thinkers of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, discussing the witness of
figures like Maria Skobtsova, murdered in a German concentration
camp for her defence of Jewish refugees, and the challenging
theologies of modern Greek thinkers like John Zizioulas and
Christos Yannaras, Rowan Williams opens the door to a 'climate and
landscape of our humanity that can indeed be warmed and
transfigured'. This is an original and illuminating vision of a
Christian world still none too familiar to Western believers and
even to students of theology, showing how the deep-rooted themes of
Eastern Christian thought can prompt new perspectives on our
contemporary crises of imagination and hope.
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