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12. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, Cosmic Grace, Humble Prayer: The Ecological Vision of the Green Patriarch Bartholomew I, ed. John Chryssavgis, Intro. Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003), pp. xii + 351, cloth, $38.00, ISBN 0-8028-2169-3.
WHILE this is a valuable collection of essays, sermons, speeches, and other writings on the holiness of all creation and the need for its protection by the "green" ecumenical patriarch, Bartholomew I, one is immediately drawn to the vibrant color of the tempera folk art painting from 1978 by Nikos Gabriel Pentzikis on the cover, Christopsaro, literally "Christfish." It depicts, in the midst of a cruciform baptismal font, this fish, saved by Christ according to legend while stranded on the shore. The fish is of course the ancient symbol of Christ himself, and here the Christfish, swimming in the saving sea of baptism, is...