Jesus and the emergence of a Catholic imagination
Subtitle: an illustrated journey
By: John Pfordresher.
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780809144532
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Words; Christianity and the arts; Imagination -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church; Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-316) and index.
Table of contents: title: Jesus and imagination; title: Origins; title: Catholic belief; title: The world of Jesus' imagination; title: Jesus' teaching and Catholic belief; title: The first Christian narratives : four biographies of Jesus; title: The emergence of Catholic art : expansion, accretion, synthesis; title: Introduction to Part II; title: Saint Paul and autobiography; title: The first churches : dura-europos; title: Death and belief : the Roman catacombs; title: Beginning Catholic poetry : Prudentius; title: The Celtic North and the Book of Kells; title: Warrior Christianity I : the Franks and the Utrecht psalter; title: Warrior Christianity II : the Saxons and the Heliand.