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The Orthodox tradition shares its riches.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 20-MAY-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Orthodox tradition shares its riches.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
WINDOWS TO HEAVEN: INTRODUCING ICONS TO PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS By Elizabeth Zelensky and Lela Gilbert Brazos Press, 142 pages, $10.39

Mention icons today and most people will immediately think of those symbols that pop up on the computer screen as entrance points to programs and procedures; click on an icon and you enter into another world. This is really a rather genial secular extension of the symbolism of the religious icon. In Windows to Heaven: Introducing Icons to Protestants and Catholics, Elizabeth Zelensky and Lela Gilbert evoke the significance and role of icons in the Orthodox church.

This is a rambling, unpretentious little book, which, in an "unorthodox" way, manages to get its point across. Elizabeth Zelensky is Russian Orthodox, Lela Gilbert is Protestant. Their intention, as the subtitle indicates, is to...

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