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Title: Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement by Rowan Williams ISBN: 0819219487 Publisher: Morehouse Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: A great book with tremendous insights into secular culture
Comment: This book is well written and easly understandable, +Williams presents his arguments clearly and constructs a good framework from the begining. This is not a scholarly work, in the sense that it is written in a more relaxed style, but Williams does a great job in using points made previously in the book to illuminate his current arguments. Although this book is written with a focus upon happenings in Great Britain it is still very helpful for people in the US. I would reccomend reading this book along with some Stanley Hauerwas and other Post-liberal thinkers as there are many points of contact between Williams' critisicms and those made by post-liberals.
I highly recommend that everyone read this book; after all, how can I be wrong when I'm so sincere? :-p
Rating: 5
Summary: A devastating critique of secular culture
Comment: From the publisher's website:
"Why does our contemporary culture find it so hard to handle certain concepts and images? What aspects of the range of human possibilities have been lost in modernity and postmodernity?
"Rowan Williams argues that we have let go of a number of crucial imaginative patterns - 'icons' - for thinking about ourselves. He considers areas such as images of childhood, our awkwardness at speaking about community, our unwillingness to think seriously about remorse, and our devastating lack of vocabulary for the growth and nurture of the self through time.
"This timely book by a master of contemporary Christian thought sketches out a renewed language for the soul."
Rating: 5
Summary: A life changing book
Comment: I think this is one of the most invigorating books I have ever read. It is totally uncompromising and incredibly impressive in its breadth and depth of thought. It presents an intellectual and moral structure that goes further than any other I know in explaining personal identity, amongst a host of other things. I very much like its humanity - this is a world view that allows the possibility of remorse that has real meaning, of change and redemption. I don't think it's possible to read this book intelligently without measuring yourself against what it says, but falling short of its high standards does not leave one without hope - the roadmarks are there. This is an honest, kind, and above all brave book. It's also delightful to be given, along the way, a bibliography of other interesting titles. I shall be rereading many times, I suspect, and finding new depths each time.
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Title: Writing in the Dust: After September 11 by Rowan Williams ISBN: 0802860761 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: January, 1902 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Ray of Darkness: Sermons and Reflections by Rowan Williams ISBN: 1561011126 Publisher: Cowley Publications Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: On Christian Theology (Challenges in Contemporary Theology) by Rowan Williams ISBN: 0631214402 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $30.95 |
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Title: Ponder These Things: Praying With Icons of the Virgin by Rowan Williams ISBN: 1580511244 Publisher: Sheed and Ward Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Arius: Heresy and Tradition by Rowan Williams ISBN: 0802849695 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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