Praying with Icons (3rd Revised Edition)

 3rd revised edition Foreword by Robert Ellsberg Afterword by Nancy Forest-Flier     “In Praying with Icons beauty itself bears witness to God.”—Michael Downey   “This book is a blessing, made extraordinarily graceful by icons, those who have honored and saved them in history, and by Jim Forest whose love for them is shared unabashedly.”—Megan McKenna   “Just as iconographers, in the language of the art, ‘write’ an icon, Forest teaches us how to read one. In his hands icons become a lectio divina, a holy reading, of color. . . . We will need a book such as this for a long, long time in this changing world.” —Joan Chittister, OSB "Recent years have seen a marked increase in the popular and ecumenical appeal of icons (for centuries an integral feature of Orthodox Christianity). Jim Forest's Praying With Icons offers a simple introduction to the tradition of icons with special emphasis on their practical function in the spiritual life. Beautifully illustrated both with color plan