The dwelling of the light : praying with icons of Christ / Rowan Williams. [print]

The transfiguration -- The Resurrection -- The hospitality of Abraham -- Pantocrator.

To look at an icon is to do far more than view a work of human art. As Orthodox Christians have understood for 1,500 years, it is a potentially life-changing encounter with God. In this attractive little book, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams shows us how to understand four classical: the Transfiguration, the Resurrection, Christ as one of the Trinity, and Christ the judge and ruler of all. AMAZON

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Rowan Douglas Williams was born in Swansea, south Wales, on 14 June 1950 into a Welsh-speaking family and was educated at Dynevor School in Swansea and Christ's College Cambridge, where he studied theology. He studied for his doctorate - in the theology of Vladimir Lossky, a leading figure in Russian twentieth-century religious thought - at Wadham College Oxford, taking his DPhil in 1975. After two years as a lecturer at the College of the Resurrection, near Leeds, he was ordained deacon in Ely Cathedral before returning to Cambridge. From 1977, he spent nine years in academic and parish work in Cambridge: first at Westcott House, being ordained priest in 1978, and from 1980 as curate at St George's, Chesterton. In 1983, he was appointed as a lecturer in Divinity at the university, and the following year, he became dean and chaplain of Clare College. 1986 saw a return to Oxford now as Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church; he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1989 and became a fellow of the British Academy in 1990. He is also an accomplished poet and translator. In 1991, Professor Williams accepted election and consecration as bishop of Monmouth, a diocese on the Welsh borders, and in 1999, on the retirement of Archbishop Alwyn Rice Jones, he was elected Archbishop of Wales, one of the 38 primates of the Anglican Communion. Thus it was that, in July 2002, with eleven years experience as a diocesan bishop and three as a leading primate in the Communion, Archbishop Williams was confirmed on December 2, 2002, as the 104th bishop of the See of Canterbury: the first Welsh successor to St Augustine of Canterbury and the first since the mid-thirteenth century to be appointed from beyond the English Church. Dr Williams is acknowledged internationally as an outstanding theological writer, scholar, and teacher. He has been involved in many theological, ecumenical, and educational commissions. He has written extensively across a very wide range of related fields of professional study - philosophy, theology (especially early and patristic Christianity), spirituality, and religious aesthetics - as evidenced by his bibliography. He has also written throughout his career on moral, ethical, and social topics and, since becoming archbishop, has turned his attention increasingly to contemporary cultural and interfaith issues. As Archbishop of Canterbury, his principal responsibilities are, however, pastoral - leading the life and witness of the Church of England in general and his own diocese in particular by his teaching and oversight and promoting and guiding the communion of the worldwide Anglican Church by the globally recognized ministry of unity that attaches to the office of bishop of the see of Canterbury. His interests include music, fiction, and languages. In 1981 Dr Williams married Jane Paul, a lecturer in theology, whom he met while living and working in Cambridge. They have a daughter and a son.