Instructor's Reading List

• Praying With Icons. By Jim Forest. Orbis Books, 1997. A rich volume of essays on many aspects of icons, well illustrated.
• Sacred Doorways: A Beginner’s Guide to Icons. By Martin Linette. Paraclete Press, Brewster, MA, 2002. This unique book combines a deep reverence for icons with an artist’s understanding of their physicality and the process of their material birth.
• Behold the Beauty of the Lord. By Henri J.M. Nouwen. Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, IN, 1987. This devotional classic offers in-depth meditations on four significant icons.
• The Meaning of Icons. By Leonid Ouspensky and Vladimir Lossky. St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, Crestwood, NY, 1999. A beautiful edition of the 1952 classic, a large-format book with a text that is both scholarly and profound.
• Ponder These Things: Praying with Icons of the Virgin. By Rowan Williams. Sheed & Ward, Franklin, WI, 2002. A small, rich book inviting us to explore and reflect on the depths of meaning in three classic icons of the Virgin and her Child.
• The Dwelling of the Light: Praying with Icons of Christ. By Rowan Williams. Grand Rapids, MI/Cambridge, U.K., 2004/2003. Drawing on this rich source of devotional theology, the Archbishop of Canterbury shows us how to understand four classical icons: the Transfiguration, the Resurrection, Christ as one of the eternal Trinity, Christ as judge of the world and ruler of all.
• The Open Door: Entering the Sanctuary of Icons and Prayer. By Frederica Mathewes-Green. This book is a call to stand still, take a deep breath and face the cloud of witnesses.