A Passion for Life: Fragments of the Face of God

by Joan D. Chittister

Book Overview

These are the icons people in Christian and non-Christian, married and single, religious and lay, from different times and diverse cultures. Like us, they are not without flaws, but so luminous in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570753180
• ISBN13: 9781570753183
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Radiant

In "A Passion for Life", theologian Joan Chittister and artist and iconographer, Robert Lentz, combine to illustrate and describe the lives of twenty-one major figures of the last two millennia. These choices are not conventional, and though some of them may are familiar, others are obscure. Many of these icons were not Catholic, some not Christian. All, however, were profoundly influential, and served to transform their societies and those following them: whether through martyrdom, like Oscar Romero, or from the walls of her cell, like Julian of Norwich. Both Lentz's beautiful illustrations and Chittister's essays provide inspiration and food for contemplation and thought. A wonderful collection.