Contents Introduction 1 Part 1 IN TIME 1 'Let there be .'7 The creation of the sun, moon and stars, twelfth-century mosaic 2 Animals come into being 11 Jacopo Tintoretto, Creation of the Animals, 1551-52 3 The image of God 15 Lucas Cranach the Elder, Adam and Eve, 1526 4 'Some natural tears they dropped' 19 Masaccio, The Expulsion from Eden, c. 1425 Part 2 IN HISTORY 5 Liberated into freedom 25 Marc Chagall, Exodus, 1952 6 The way of life required of God's people 31 Moses before the burning bush, sixth-century mosaic 7 Prophetic critique 35 Albert Herbert, Elijah Being Fed by a Raven, 1992 8 Divine wisdom 39 Holy Wisdom, sixteenth-century icon 9 Suffering 45 Roger Wagner, And the Lord Lifted Up Job's Face, 1995 10 'The Word became flesh and dwelt among us' 49 Patricia Fostiropoulos, Icon of loving kindness, 1990 11 The baptism of Christ 53 Piero della Francesca, The Baptism of Christ, c. 1450 12 The testing of Christ 57 Stanley Spencer, The Scorpion, 1939 13 The One who knows our needs 61 Rembrandt, Christ Healing and Preaching, c. 1648 14 Welcomed home 65 Hildegart Nicholas, The Prodigal, 1991 15 'From glory to glory' 69 Edith Reyntiens, Icon of the Transfiguration, c. 1986 16 The Last Supper 73 Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1494-98 17 Agony 77 Helen Meyer, Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, c. 1990 18 Crucified and risen 81 Norman Adams, The Golden Crucifixion, 1993 19 Delivered from darkness 85 The Anastasis, fourteenth-century fresco 20 'He is not here, he is risen' 89 The two Marys finding the tomb of Jesus empty, sixth-century mosaic Part 3 IN CHRIST 21 'Do not cling to me, I have not yet ascended to the Father' 95 David Wynne, Noli me tangere, 1963 22 Questioning 99 Mosaic at Hosios Loukas, Greece, c. 1120 23 The supper at Emmaus 103 Ceri Richards, The Supper at Emmaus, 1958 24 Life turned upside down 107 Caravaggio, Conversion on the Way to Damascus, 1600-01 25 The Spirit descends to live within us 111 Nicholas Mynheer, Worcester College Chapel Choir, 2003 26 The dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary 117 Twelfth-century icon 27 Christian mindfulness 121 Tom Denny, Window in memory of Thomas Traherne, 2006-07 28 'Christ within us, our true self' 127 Solomon Raj, Etching, c.

1995 29 The Communion of Saints 131 Fra Angelico, Christ Glorified in the Court of Heaven, 1423-24 30 The hospitality of God 137 Andrei Rublev, The Trinity, c. 1425-27 Notes 139 Acknowledgements 141.