James Romaine, Associate Professor of Art History and chair of the Department of Art History at Nyack College. He is the President of the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA). His recent scholarship includes Art as Spiritual Perception: A Festschrift for Dr. E. John Walford (2012), and contributing to the exhibition catalog Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History (2009). Linda Stratford, Associate Professor at Asbury University. She is a board member of the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA) and has produced a number of publications and presentations that draw upon cross-disciplinary training in art history and aesthetics, including a manuscript in progress, "Artists into Frenchmen," a study of art and identity in modern France.

The essays in this book offer detailed attention to particular works in a way that often brings fresh understanding. Anyone interested in the relationship between Christian faith and art will find much that is helpful.

• Expanding the Discourse on Christianity in the History of Art -James RomaineMethodological Issues from the Fields of Art History, Visual Culture, and Theology -Linda StratfordPART I. Methodological Issues of Iconography in Early Christian and Medieval ArtIconographic Literacy: Recognizing the Resurrected Jesus in the Vatican Jonah Sarcophagus -Linda Møskeland FuchsIcon as Theology: The Byzantine 'Virgin of Predestination' -Matthew J. MillinerMarginalia or Eschatological Iconography?: Providence and Plenitude in the Imagery of Abundance at Orvieto Cathedral -Rachel Hostetter SmithIconography of Sign: A Semiotic Reading of the Arma Christi -Heather MadarHybridizing Iconography: 'The Miraculous Mass of St. Gregory' Featherwork from the Colegio de San Jose de los Naturales in Mexico City -Elena Fitzpatrick SiffordPART II. Methodological Issues of Reading Theology in Renaissance and Baroque ArtReading Hermeneutic Space: Pictorial and Spiritual Transformation in the Brancacci Chapel -Chloë ReddawayReading Theological Place: Joachim Patinir's Penitence of St. Jerome as Devotional Pilgrimage -Matthew S. VanderpoelReading Theological Context: A Marian Interpretation of Michelangelo's Roman Pietà -Elizabeth LevReading Visual Rhetoric: Strategies of Piety and Propaganda in Lucas Cranach the Elder's 'Passional Christi und Antichristi' -Bobbi DykemaReading Devotion: Counter-Reformation Iconography and Meaning in Gregorio Fernandez's 'Cristo yacente' of El Pardo -Ilenia Colón MendozaPart III. Methodological Issues of Historical-Religious Context in Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-first Century ArtHistoricism and Scenes of "The Passion" in Nineteenth-Century French Romantic Painting -Joyce C. PolistenaConsuming Christ: Henry Ossawa Tanner's Biblical Paintings and Nineteenth-Century American Commerce -Kristin A. SchwainFiguring Redemption: Christianity and Modernity in Max Beckmann's Resurrections -Amy K. HamlinEmbodiment as Sacrament: Francis Bacon's Postwar Horror -Rina AryaMedia, Mimesis, and Sacrifice: Paul Pfeiffer's Contemporary Christological Lens -Isabelle Loring WallaceAuthor biosIndex