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Encounters with God - In Quest of the Ancient Icons of Mary (Hardcover)
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Encounters with God - In Quest of the Ancient Icons of Mary (Hardcover)
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Price R308
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Sister Wendy leads us on a 'pilgrimage of desire' to view the
earliest surviving Icons of Mary. 'These early images of Mary seem
to me to have the power to shock us out of our complacency, to make
us look anew at what the birth of Jesus meant, and means...' In
this compelling story of discovery and spiritual adventure, Sister
Wendy Beckett, a contemplative nun and beloved art commentator,
travels from England, to Rome, to Ukraine, and finally to a remote
monastery in Sinai, to view the earliest Icons of Mary.These are
among the few Icons that survived 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 are
drawing us out of our worldly reality into their world, the true
world, summoning us to leave behind all that is earthly and to
breathe an air more pure than we can understand. Icons are for
prayer. They are painted in prayer and their intention is to take
us into a state of prayer'. They come to us from a time closer to
that of Christ, when faith was still alive with wonder, and
possibilities were infinite.In the course of her pilgrimage, Sister
Wendy also reviews the history of Christian art, the meaning and
function of Icons, and shares her thoughts on the relation between
beauty, prayer, and the search for God. In her quest for these
ancient Icons, she feels that she has encountered something greater
than an image: 'I have called it an encounter with God, because
that is truly what it was for me, and what I hope it will be for
you, too'."Encounters with God" is beautifully presented with 65
full colour illustrations throughout.
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