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List of illustrations | p. ix |
Preface | p. xiii |
Notes on referencing | p. xvi |
The Evangelist, The Gospel, The Word | |
The Apostle of love: St John the Evangelist | p. 3 |
Young disciple and aged divine | p. 3 |
Witness and contemplative | p. 13 |
Beloved disciple and Apostle of love | p. 20 |
'The most marvellous enigma': the fourth gospel | p. 29 |
Traditional and critical orthodoxies | p. 29 |
Poetry and mysticism | p. 41 |
The Light of the Word: Incarnation | p. 52 |
Light and Life | p. 52 |
Interpreting the Word | p. 57 |
Representing the Light | p. 69 |
Interpretations and Representations | |
Water into wine: the miracle at Cana | p. 85 |
In defence of miracles | p. 85 |
Illustrating Cana | p. 96 |
The poetry of manifestation | p. 104 |
Living water: the woman at the well | p. 111 |
Fact or allegory? | p. 111 |
Christology at the well | p. 118 |
The fallen woman converted | p. 129 |
Raising the dead: Lazarus of Bethany | p. 139 |
A problematic narrative | p. 139 |
The quintessence of John | p. 144 |
Poetic language and narrative silence | p. 152 |
A beauty which art cannot reach | p. 162 |
'Behold thy mother': at the foot of the Cross | p. 169 |
Catholic versus Protestant | p. 169 |
Bloody crucifixes and gilded Virgins | p. 179 |
Anglicizing the Stabat Mater | p. 189 |
Touching the risen body: Mary Magdalene and Thomas | p. 199 |
Sainthood and misrepresentation | p. 199 |
The poetry of faith and doubt | p. 211 |
Picturing the risen Christ | p. 224 |
Afterword | p. 236 |
Bibliography | p. 239 |
Index | p. 262 |
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