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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,...

action, bridging the gap between the secular and the sacred, and introducing the dimension of the transcendent into all aspects of our daily existence. Everything that has been said so far about the icon shows how altogether inadequate it is to describe icons merely as religious pictures. They are much more than that. “The icon is a door,” states the life of St Stephen the Younger (d. c. 764), who underwent martyrdom in defence of the holy icons.11 It is a means of entry, a place of
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