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Why does our contemporary culture find it so hard to handle certain concepts and images? What aspects of the range of human possibilities have been lost in modernity and postmodernity? Rowan Williams argues that we have let go of a number of crucial imaginative patterns - 'icons' - for thinking about ourselves. He considers areas such as images of childhood, our awkwardness at speaking about community, our unwillingness to think seriously about remorse, and our devastating lack of vocabulary for the growth and nurture of ...

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Lost Icons 2003, Continuum

ISBN-13: 9780826467997

Trade paperback

Lost Icons 2002, Bloomsbury Academic, New York

ISBN-13: 9780819219480

Trade paperback