Description: Jesus Through Medieval Eyes : Beholding Christ With the Artists, Mystics, and Theologians of the Middle Ages, Hardcover by Hamman, Grace; Barr, Beth Allison (FRW), ISBN 031014583X, ISBN-13 9780310145837, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US ". Lewis noted that the church has a problem: Whenever Christians are brainstorming together about who Jesus is and who we are, we go out and read mostly people who agree with us, or who live in our same time and place. It's hard to separate the cultural wheat from the chaff. But what happens when we do read people's answers to Jesus's question from the past lives and places of the church--people who may be wholly unlike us? Who is Jesus? What is he like? And who am I, encountering Jesus? The answers will surprise you. Jesus Through Medieval Eyes, by Grace Hamman, looks to the Christians of the Middle Ages, to a time and culture dissimilar to our own, for their answers to these questions. Medieval Europeans were also suffering through pandemics, dealing with political and ecclesial corruption and instability, and reckoning with gender, money, and power. Yet their concerns and imaginations are unlike ours. Their ideas, narratives, and art about Jesus open up paradoxically fresh and ancient ways to approach and adore Christ--and reveal where our own cultural ideals about the Messiah fall thoughtful and accessible chapters, medievalist scholar Grace Hamman explores and meditates upon medieval representations of Jesus in theology and literature. These representations of Jesus span from the familiar, like Jesus as the Judge at the End of Days, or Jesus as the Lover of the Song of Songs, to the more unusual, like Jesus as Our Mother. Through the words of medieval people like Julian of Norwich, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Margery Kempe, and St. Thomas Aquinas, we meet these faces of Jesus and find renewed ways to love the Savior, in the words of St. Augustine, that "beauty so ancient and so new.""--
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Book Title: Jesus Through Medieval Eyes : Beholding Christ with the Artists, Mystics, and Theologians of the Middle Ages
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Zondervan
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: Christian Theology / Christology, Christian Church / History, Christianity / Literature & the Arts
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Religion
Item Weight: 13.3 Oz
Item Length: 8.7 in
Author: Grace Hamman
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover