Symbolism and the Christian Imagination

Symbolism and the Christian Imagination is a fascinating exploration of the Christian imagination from the Apostolic age to the high Medieval period. Employing a plethora of examples and figures, patristic and classicist scholar Herbert Musurillo, S.J., develops a highly detailed and deftly balanced to the genesis and terminus of Christian art and literature. In the words of its author, the book demonstrates how “the Christian tradition was fed in different ways from different, and sometimes opposing, sources; and how it grew strong with the intuitive awareness, so beautifully expressed by Augustine, that all truth is the Lord’s no matter what the source.”

Paperback. 238 pages.