Author(s): Henri J.M. Nouwen

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This twentieth anniversary edition, brings Henri J. M. Nouwen's writings on Eastern Orthodox icons to a new generation and adds to the repackaged Nouwen collection published by Ave Maria Press. With a new foreword by Br. Robert Lentz, a well-known painter of contemporary icons, this classic Nouwen book invites readers to pray with four Russian icons with their eyes open by emphasizing seeing or gazing, which are at the heart of Eastern spirituality. Nouwen's meditations reveal his viewing of the icons not as decorations, but holy places. The book includes four full-color icons, which can be removed for private contemplation or meditation.

About the author:
Henri J M Nouwen one of the most popular spiritual writers of our time, taught at Yale University, Harvard University and the University of Notre Dame. From 1986 until his death in 1996, he taught and ministers to physically and mentally challenged men and women at the L'Arche Daybreak community in Toronto, Canada.