The British Museum Christ

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SCOR $48 ex GARD

Description

This beautiful book traces the key events of Jesus's life and the main tenets of his teaching, as revealed in the New Testament and foreshadowed in the Old. Illustrated with powerful images drawn from the collections of the British Museum.

Author description

Rowena Loverance is a specialist in Byzantine sculpture and author of Byzantium, an illustrated guide to the Byzantine collections of the British Museum. An enthusiast for ecumenical and interfaith dialogue, she is a former co-President of Churches Together in England, and has travelled widely in Europe and the Near East. She is Head of Outreach at the British Museum and a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London.

Table of contents

1) The life of Christ (nativity, flight into Egypt, infancy, baptism, ministry, Last Supper, Passion, Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension); 2) Christ's Beliefs (kingdom of peace, Jewish tradition, good shepherd, the Trinity, the Son of God, triumph over evil); 3) The Church (Christ and Peter, Christ and Paul, transmission of the Bible, icons, baptism, Eucharist); 4) Being a disciple (faith, suffering, seeing Christ in creation); 5) Heaven (inevitability of death, Resurrection, Last Judgement, eternal life)

Stock Information

General Fields

• ISBN : 9780714150154
• Publisher : britmp
• Imprint : britmp
• Dimensions : 185mm X 150mm
• Produced in : United Kingdom
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Illustrations : 45 colour illustrations
• Pages : 96
• Dewey classification : 232.901
• Bind : Hardback
• Author : Rowena Loverance