Jesus and the emergence of a Catholic imagination :

Pfordresher, John.

Jesus and the emergence of a Catholic imagination : an illustrated journey / John Pfordresher. - New York : Paulist Press, c2008. - xiv, 333 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-316) and index.

Jesus and imagination -- Origins -- Catholic belief -- The world of Jesus' imagination -- Jesus' teaching and Catholic belief -- The first Christian narratives : four biographies of Jesus -- The emergence of Catholic art : expansion, accretion, synthesis -- Introduction to Part II -- Saint Paul and autobiography -- The first churches : dura-europos -- Death and belief : the Roman catacombs -- Beginning Catholic poetry : Prudentius -- The Celtic North and the Book of Kells -- Warrior Christianity I : the Franks and the Utrecht psalter -- Warrior Christianity II : the Saxons and the Heliand.

9780809144532 (alk. paper) 0809144530 (alk. paper)

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Jesus Christ--Words.


Christianity and the arts.
Imagination--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
Church history.

BX1795.A78 / P46 2008

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