Ponder These Things by Rowan Williams

Ponder These Things by Rowan Williams

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

Rowan Williams explores the true depths of meaning of three classic icons of Mary: the Hodegetria, the Eleousa and the Orans. He also makes contemporary sense of one of the many legends of Mary to show how all Christians can model themselves on her.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free US shipping over $15
  • Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
  • Millions of affordable books
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

Ponder These Things by Rowan Williams

What we call holy in the world - a person, a place, a set of words or pictures - is so because the completely foreign is brough 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. Here, Rowan Williams invites us to explores 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 lien and colour" and, in tracing the movement within these icons, Williams discovers the pattern of love that they reveal, a love that invites and embraces us so that we no longer remain as spectators, but find ourselves caught up in the drama that unfolds itself before us.
Rowan Williams was formerly the Archbishop of Canterbury and Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge.
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9781853113628
ISBN 10 185311362X
Title Ponder These Things
Author Rowan Williams
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Canterbury Press Norwich
Year published 2002-07-01
Number of pages 96
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
Note Unavailable