A powerful devotional study of all existing pre-Iconoclastic icons that are still readable.
Sister Wendy became a nun at the age of 16, went on to live for nearly 20 years as a hermit, and then was exposed to the world in a successful television career as the 'art nun'. She is the author of over 20 books with art as the main theme. She continues to live a cloistered life, devoted to prayer.
‘Sister Wendy has a poet's ear and writes very tenderly about the
significance of these extraordinary early artefacts.'
*Good Book Guide*
‘Describing in words things heavenly and divine is a task which she
tackles commendably as she brings to this book a synthesis of her
life in religious profession and her aptitudes as an art
historian.'
*CR Quarterly Review*
‘This is a short, readable, but not at all superficial book.'
*The Franciscan*
Sister Wendy has a poet's ear and writes tenderly about the
significance of early icons.
*Good Book Guide*
...gorgeously illustrated...
*Theological Book Review Volume 23 No.1*
Listed in the 'New Titles Just Published' section
*Church Times*
'This book is descriptive and devotional...to have the whole range
of these icons considered in one place is a gift indeed.'
*The Church Times Books for Christmas Supplement*
‘Prayerful and heartfelt Real Presence engages with the spiritual
imagination of the early Church, giving insight into all the
emotion and drama of early Christianity, and readers will find
their own faith enriched.'
*Methodist Recorder*
Reviewed in the Church of England Newspaper
*Church of England Newspaper*
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