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Word and Icon: Exploring the New Testament with Christian Art, Iconography, Commentary and Prayer is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christ is God’s “Word and Icon.” God not only authors his definitive word by his Holy Spirit, he also fashions his image in the flesh of Jesus of Nazareth. Indeed, Jesus as his father’s “eikon” is the visible image of the invisible God (Col. 1:15). For two millennia iconographers have tried to depict the uncreated, divine essence and energy of Christ—his living light, which permeates the cosmos,...

“There’s glory for you!” Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll’s ‘Through the Looking Glass’ OUR BEST APPROACH to any Christian community not our own—our best approach, equally, to any non-Christian faith—is to ask ourselves the question: How do its members pray? What form does their worship take, what is their sense of the sacred or the numinous? In what manner do they stand before God? For Western Christians, then, seeking to understand the Orthodox tradition, the most helpful way of
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