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