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Augustine, that beauty so ancient and so new..
Thomas Aquinas, we meet these faces of Jesus and find renewed ways to love the Savior, in the words of St.
Bernard of Clairvaux, Margery Kempe, and St.
Through the words of Medieval people like Julian of Norwich, St.
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.
In thoughtful and accessible chapters, medievalist scholar Grace Hamman explores and meditates upon Medieval representations of Jesus in theology and literature.
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 short.
Yet their concerns and imaginations are unlike ours.
Medieval Europeans were also suffering Through pandemics, dealing with political and ecclesial corruption and instability, and reckoning with gender, money, and power.
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.
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.
It\'s hard to separate the cultural wheat from the chaff.
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.
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