The essays in this book offer detailed attention to particular works in a way that often brings fresh understanding. Anyone interested in the relationship between Christian faith and art will find much that is helpful.
— Richard Harries

Within this fulsome collection, researchers will be pleased to find no less than 39 black and white illustrations as well as 24 full-colour plates. Scholars of art history in general and more specifically researchers in theology and the arts will be well served by this rigorous and engaging exploration of how to bridge these disciplines more carefully. It represents a unique resource for faculty and graduate students.
— Taylor Worley

Expanding the Discourse on Christianity in the History of Art -James Romaine
Methodological Issues from the Fields of Art History, Visual Culture, and Theology -Linda Stratford

PART I. Methodological Issues of Iconography in Early Christian and Medieval Art
Iconographic Literacy: Recognizing the Resurrected Jesus in the Vatican Jonah Sarcophagus -Linda Møskeland Fuchs
Icon as Theology: The Byzantine 'Virgin of Predestination' -Matthew J. Milliner
Marginalia or Eschatological Iconography?: Providence and Plenitude in the Imagery of Abundance at Orvieto Cathedral -Rachel Hostetter Smith
Iconography of Sign: A Semiotic Reading of the Arma Christi -Heather Madar
Hybridizing Iconography: 'The Miraculous Mass of St. Gregory' Featherwork from the Colegio de San Jose de los Naturales in Mexico City -Elena Fitzpatrick Sifford

PART II. Methodological Issues of Reading Theology in Renaissance and Baroque Art
Reading Hermeneutic Space: Pictorial and Spiritual Transformation in the Brancacci Chapel -Chloë Reddaway
Reading Theological Place: Joachim Patinir's Penitence of St. Jerome as Devotional Pilgrimage -Matthew S. Vanderpoel
Reading Theological Context: A Marian Interpretation of Michelangelo's Roman Pietà -Elizabeth Lev
Reading Visual Rhetoric: Strategies of Piety and Propaganda in Lucas Cranach the Elder's 'Passional Christi und Antichristi' -Bobbi Dykema
Reading Devotion: Counter-Reformation Iconography and Meaning in Gregorio Fernandez's 'Cristo yacente' of El Pardo -Ilenia Colón Mendoza

Part III. Methodological Issues of Historical-Religious Context in Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-first Century Art
Historicism and Scenes of "The Passion" in Nineteenth-Century French Romantic Painting -Joyce C. Polistena
Consuming Christ: Henry Ossawa Tanner's Biblical Paintings and Nineteenth-Century American Commerce -Kristin A. Schwain
Figuring Redemption: Christianity and Modernity in Max Beckmann's Resurrections -Amy K. Hamlin
Embodiment as Sacrament: Francis Bacon's Postwar Horror -Rina Arya
Media, Mimesis, and Sacrifice: Paul Pfeiffer's Contemporary Christological Lens -Isabelle Loring Wallace

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