List of Illustrations and Maps
List of Illustrations and Maps
1.1
Ecce Ancilla Domini
The Annunciation
1.2
Birth of Christ, with the Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Peter the Martyr
1.3
The Calling of SS. Peter and Andrew
1.4
The Galilean ministry of Jesus (map).
1.5
The Resurrection of Christ
2.1
The route of Israel’s exodus from Egypt and conquest of Canaan (map).
2.2
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the greatest wonders of the Ancient World; after Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, c. 1700. Source: AKG Images.
2.3
2.4
The Holy Bible
3.1
The Holy Trinity
The Three Angels with Abraham
3.2
Europe: A Prophecy
3.3
The Creation of Adam
3.4
Karl Barth (1886–1968). Source: Ullstein Bild/AKG Images.
3.5
Deesis
Christ with Mary and John the Baptist
3.6
AD
AD
3.7
Petites Heures
Petites Heures
4.1
Constantine, the first Christian Roman emperor. Source: Nimatallah/AKG Images.
4.2
The Abbey of Montecassino. Source: Pirozzi/AKG Images.
4.3
A Celtic Cross from Ireland, widely regarded as a symbol of the distinctive forms of Christianity that emerged in this region. Source: Juergen Sorges/AKG Images.
4.4
4.5
Erasmus of Rotterdam, c. 1525/30, after the painting (1517) by Quentin Massys (1465/66–1530). Source: Pirozzi/AKG Images.
4.6
Portrait of Martin Luther (1528); from the studio of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553). Source: AKG Images.
4.7
Portrait of the Genevan reformer John Calvin. Source: AKG Images.
4.8
Henry VIII (1540), by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543). Source: Nimatallah/AKG Images.
4.9
Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus (1556), by Jacopino del Conte (1510–1598). Source: AKG Images.
4.10
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924), leader of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Source: AKG Images.
4.11
The opening of the second session of the Second Vatican Council, September 29, 1963, with Pope Paul VI (formerly Giovanni Battista Montini). Source: Keystone/Getty Images
6.1
A Russian Orthodox wedding at the Church of the Transfiguration, St. Petersburg. Source: © Robert Harding Picture Library Ltd/Alamy.
6.2
Christian baptism by total immersion in the Indian Ocean in the island of Zanzibar. Source: © World Religions Photo Library/Alamy.
6.3
The Last Supper celebrated and commemorated in the eucharist; according to Jacopo da Ponte Bassano (c. 1510–1592). Source: Cameraphoto/AKG Images.
6.4
Queen Elizabeth II hands out Maundy Money during the Royal Maundy Service held at Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral in 2004. The purses containing the coins were handed to 78 men and 78 women, the number selected to mark the Queen’s 78th year. Source: Phil Noble/PA Archives/Press Association Images.
6.5
Santiago de Compostela, the center of a major pilgrimage route in northern Spain. Source: Andrea Jemolo/AKG Images.
7.1
Saint Augustine of Hippo in a monastic cell, as depicted by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1495. Source: Rabatti-Domingie/AKG Images.
7.2
Ground plan of York Minster, one of the greatest Gothic cathedrals of Europe. Note especially its cruciform structure. Source: © The Dean & Chapter of York.
7.3
The crucifixion, as depicted by Matthias Grünewald in the Isenheim Altarpiece, executed c. 1513–1515. Source: Erich Lessing/AKG Images.
7.4
Byzantine icon of the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century, showing Mary with the infant Jesus. Source: Cameraphoto/AKG Images.
7.5
7.6
The pulpit in St. Peter’s Cathedral, Geneva. Source: J.-P. Scherrer/Geneva 2005.
7.7
The great rose window above the main portal of the cathedral of Notre Dame, Strasbourg, France, one of the finest examples of stained glass in Europe. Strasbourg (Alsace, France), Minster: Cathédrale Notre-Dame (12th–15th century). West façade (planned in 1276 by Erwin von Steinbach): Window rose above the main portal. Source: Hedda Eid/AKG Images.