Inscribed by previous owner. Signed by Author. Nice clean text. - Disclaimer: May have a different cover image than stock photos shows, as well as being a different edition/printing, unless otherwise stated. Please contact us if you're looking for one of these specifically. Your order will ship with FREE Delivery Confirmation (Tracking). We are a family business, and your satisfaction is our goal! Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: Eastern Christians (both Catholic and Orthodox) are not, as a recent commentator pointed out, a dusty historical footnote or quaint ethnic ghetto, but are a living and vibrant church to which Western Christians are turning by the thousands in search of spiritual nourishment undiluted by sentimentality, liturgical posturing and a trendy accommodation to prevailing tastes. In 1987 more than 2000 evangelical Christians became Orthodox "en masse" because they recognized the solidity and grandeur of the Eastern tradition. Author Hart, a minister of the United Methodist Church, became absorbed with the riches of Eastern Christianity some years ago while exploring approaches to liturgical renewal within his own denomination ? so absorbed, in fact, that he taught himself the art of iconography. Here are fifteen of his icons in full color as well as rich and stimulating meditations on the mysteries to which the icons direct us. "Icons are not intended to be viewed as art," says Hart. "They address the viewer or, rather, engage the viewer as scripture engages the reader or the hearer?This book is an expression of my desire to share my journey and some of its fruit?"