This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the religious and artistic story behind The Light of the World by Holman Hunt.
Markus Bockmuehl is a Fellow of Keble College and Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford, UK.
Preface
Sir Jonathan Phillips
1 Introduction
Markus Bockmuehl
2 William Holman Hunt's Religious and Historical Context
Frances Knight
3 Pre-Raphaelite Light: Hunt's Vision of Salvation
Ayla Lepine
4 Christina Rossetti's Christology
Rebekah Lamb
5 The Light of the World on Tour
Ian W. Archer
6 Revelation 3.20 in the Light of The Light of the World
Jamie Davies
7 A Disturbing Painting
Jeremy Begbie
8 Postcolonialism and Ways of Seeing Light of the World
Renie Chow Choy
9 Holman Hunt's The Light of the World and Iconography: 'In Your Light We See Light'
John Behr
10 Seeing God Through Portrait Paintings of Displaced Women: An Aesthetics of Hospitality
Hannah Rose Thomas
11 The Light of the World and the Dynamics of Conversion
Ben Quash