Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement (later Lost Icons: Essays on Cultural Bereavement) is a 2000 collection of essays by theologian Rowan Williams.
Content The work deals with the loss of traditions, which he terms "icons", in exchange for short term fads, "fashions", mainly in the United Kingdom. In the view of Williams this change of societal values results in cultural bereavement.Shakespeare, S. (2000). "Book Review: Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement". Theology, 103(816), 456-457. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571X0010300617 (Original work published 2000)McEvoy, James (2005). "Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement [Book Review]". The Australasian Catholic Record 82 (2):243.Quash, Ben (2001). "Book Reviews : Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement, by Rowan Williams. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2000.190 pp. pb. £12.95. ISBN 0-567-08722-0". Studies in Christian Ethics 14 (1):117-120. He is particularly focused on childhood.NICHOLS, A. (2000). "[Review of LOST ICONS: REFLECTIONS ON CULTURAL BEREAVEMENT, by R. Williams]". New Blackfriars, 81(957), 509–511. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43249491
Reception Mark Allen McIntosh writing for Spiritus was positive towards the book, naming one of its greatest strengths as "its irreducibly social and political vision".McIntosh, Mark Allen. "Review of Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement". Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, vol. 2 no. 1, 2002, p. 132-134. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scs.2002.0013. Theology Today likewise praised it, stating that it is a rare example of a work that is in touch with both "Christian theology and contemporary culture, politics, education, and spirituality".Ford, D. F. (2002). Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement By Rowan Williams: Edinburgh, T & T Clark, 2000. 190 pp. $24.95. Theology Today, 58(4), 645-647. https://doi.org/10.1177/004057360205800446 (Original work published 2002) Richard Chartres of The Journal of Theological Studies lauded it for its willingness to engage in conversation with those who hold opposing views.RICHARD CHARTRES, REVIEWS, The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 52, Issue 1, April 2001, Pages 465–467, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/52.1.465 The writer for Scottish Journal of Theology was overall positive towards Williams work but disagreed with some of his conclusions, arguing that society has not lost as much as Williams believes.Spinks BD. Crawford Gribben, The Puritan Millennium: Literature and Theology, 1550–1682 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000), pp. 224. £39.50. Scottish Journal of Theology. 2003;56(1):101-130. doi:10.1017/S0036930603290189
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