Sheona Beaumont is an artist and writer working with photography. She was Bishop Otter Scholar (2017–2020) with the Diocese of Chichester and King's College London, and her doctorate on the Bible in photography was completed at the International Centre for Biblical Interpretation, University of Gloucestershire. She has written for History of Photography, Religion and the Arts, Art+Christianity, and the Visual Commentary on Scripture, and her artist books include Eye See Trinity and Bristol Through the Lens. She is co-founder of Visual Theology. Madeleine Emerald Thiele is an art historian whose research examines Tractarian aesthetics and the angelic form within British art c.1840s–1900s. She has presented papers internationally, taught at the University of Bristol, written for the Victorian Web, lectured at Marlborough College, and was the Visual Arts Editor for HARTS & Minds. Madeleine has published on the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, and she is also co-founder of Visual Theology.

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• Introduction-Sheona Beaumont and Madeleine Emerald Thiele; PART 1: Re-working the Bible Beyond Symbolic Expression; 1 ‘The Hearing Ear and the Seeing Eye’: Transformative Listening to the Biblical Image-John Harvey; 2 Photography as the Bible’s New Illumination-Sheona Beaumont; 3 The Visual Commentary on Scripture: Principles and Possibilities-Ben Quash; 4 The Virgin and the Visual Artist as Theologian: Examining Two Marian Images by David Jones-Ewan King; Praxis I: LAVANT 2018-Sara Mark; PART 2: Re-Shaping Institutional and Historical Cross-Currents; 5 ‘A Sacred Art of the State’: Public Commissions for French Churches, Abbeys, and Cathedrals-Jonathan Koestlé-Cate; 6 The Chapel at Royal Holloway: Visual Theology and Women’s Education-John Dickson and Harriet O’Neill; 7 The 'Sacred Pastoral' as the Manifestation of Spirituality in the Work of Bishop William Giles-Marjorie Coughlan; Praxis II:HS-Maciej Urbanek; PART 3: Re-Discovering the Church Space in Liturgy, Performance, and Installation; 8 Bin Bag Visions: Theological Horizons in Maciej Urbanek’s HS-Jonathan A. Anderson; 9 Public Liturgical Theology Through Community and Public Art-Martin Poole and Stephen B. Roberts; 10 Stations of the Cross & Stations of the Resurrection: Interdisciplinary Art Practice and its Implications for Visual Theology-Lucy Newman Cleeve; Envoi-Sheona Beaumont and Madeleine Emerald Thiele

Sheona Beaumont is an artist and writer working with photography. She was Bishop Otter Scholar (2017–2020) with the Diocese of Chichester and King's College London, and her doctorate on the Bible in photography was completed at the International Centre for Biblical Interpretation, University of Gloucestershire. She has written for History of Photography, Religion and the Arts, Art+Christianity, and the Visual Commentary on Scripture, and her artist books include Eye See Trinity and Bristol Through the Lens. She is co-founder of Visual Theology. Madeleine Emerald Thiele is an art historian whose research examines Tractarian aesthetics and the angelic form within British art c.1840s–1900s. She has presented papers internationally, taught at the University of Bristol, written for the Victorian Web, lectured at Marlborough College, and was the Visual Arts Editor for HARTS & Minds. Madeleine has published on the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, and she is also co-founder of Visual Theology.

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• Introduction-Sheona Beaumont and Madeleine Emerald Thiele; PART 1: Re-working the Bible Beyond Symbolic Expression; 1 ‘The Hearing Ear and the Seeing Eye’: Transformative Listening to the Biblical Image-John Harvey; 2 Photography as the Bible’s New Illumination-Sheona Beaumont; 3 The Visual Commentary on Scripture: Principles and Possibilities-Ben Quash; 4 The Virgin and the Visual Artist as Theologian: Examining Two Marian Images by David Jones-Ewan King; Praxis I: LAVANT 2018-Sara Mark; PART 2: Re-Shaping Institutional and Historical Cross-Currents; 5 ‘A Sacred Art of the State’: Public Commissions for French Churches, Abbeys, and Cathedrals-Jonathan Koestlé-Cate; 6 The Chapel at Royal Holloway: Visual Theology and Women’s Education-John Dickson and Harriet O’Neill; 7 The 'Sacred Pastoral' as the Manifestation of Spirituality in the Work of Bishop William Giles-Marjorie Coughlan; Praxis II:HS-Maciej Urbanek; PART 3: Re-Discovering the Church Space in Liturgy, Performance, and Installation; 8 Bin Bag Visions: Theological Horizons in Maciej Urbanek’s HS-Jonathan A. Anderson; 9 Public Liturgical Theology Through Community and Public Art-Martin Poole and Stephen B. Roberts; 10 Stations of the Cross & Stations of the Resurrection: Interdisciplinary Art Practice and its Implications for Visual Theology-Lucy Newman Cleeve; Envoi-Sheona Beaumont and Madeleine Emerald Thiele

Sheona Beaumont is an artist and writer working with photography. She was Bishop Otter Scholar (2017–2020) with the Diocese of Chichester and King's College London, and her doctorate on the Bible in photography was completed at the International Centre for Biblical Interpretation, University of Gloucestershire. She has written for History of Photography, Religion and the Arts, Art+Christianity, and the Visual Commentary on Scripture, and her artist books include Eye See Trinity and Bristol Through the Lens. She is co-founder of Visual Theology. Madeleine Emerald Thiele is an art historian whose research examines Tractarian aesthetics and the angelic form within British art c.1840s–1900s. She has presented papers internationally, taught at the University of Bristol, written for the Victorian Web, lectured at Marlborough College, and was the Visual Arts Editor for HARTS & Minds. Madeleine has published on the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, and she is also co-founder of Visual Theology.

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• Introduction-Sheona Beaumont and Madeleine Emerald Thiele; PART 1: Re-working the Bible Beyond Symbolic Expression; 1 ‘The Hearing Ear and the Seeing Eye’: Transformative Listening to the Biblical Image-John Harvey; 2 Photography as the Bible’s New Illumination-Sheona Beaumont; 3 The Visual Commentary on Scripture: Principles and Possibilities-Ben Quash; 4 The Virgin and the Visual Artist as Theologian: Examining Two Marian Images by David Jones-Ewan King; Praxis I: LAVANT 2018-Sara Mark; PART 2: Re-Shaping Institutional and Historical Cross-Currents; 5 ‘A Sacred Art of the State’: Public Commissions for French Churches, Abbeys, and Cathedrals-Jonathan Koestlé-Cate; 6 The Chapel at Royal Holloway: Visual Theology and Women’s Education-John Dickson and Harriet O’Neill; 7 The 'Sacred Pastoral' as the Manifestation of Spirituality in the Work of Bishop William Giles-Marjorie Coughlan; Praxis II:HS-Maciej Urbanek; PART 3: Re-Discovering the Church Space in Liturgy, Performance, and Installation; 8 Bin Bag Visions: Theological Horizons in Maciej Urbanek’s HS-Jonathan A. Anderson; 9 Public Liturgical Theology Through Community and Public Art-Martin Poole and Stephen B. Roberts; 10 Stations of the Cross & Stations of the Resurrection: Interdisciplinary Art Practice and its Implications for Visual Theology-Lucy Newman Cleeve; Envoi-Sheona Beaumont and Madeleine Emerald Thiele