Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART 1 Foundations, in Creation and Grace -- 1 Aesthetics in Augustine and Aquinas -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- 2 The Origin and Crisis of Christian Art -- Introduction -- Iconography and the Bible -- Christian iconography in the early patristic age -- The crisis of early Christian art -- Ecumenical resolution: Nicaea II and the reception of its dogmatic definition -- Conclusion -- PART 2 Twentieth-Century Theologians of the Image -- 3 Hans Urs von Balthasar on Art as Redemptive Beauty -- Introduction -- A theology of beauty -- A theology of the image of God in man -- A theology of the saving Incarnation as centre of the revelation images must serve -- A philosophy of the image at large -- A Neo-Iconophile theology of the artist -- The content of Christian art -- 4 Sergei Bulgakov on the Art of the Icon -- Introduction -- Attitude to Nicaea II and the Iconophile doctors -- A theology of beauty -- A theology of the image of God in man -- A theology of the saving Incarnation -- A philosophy of the image at large -- A Neo-Iconophile theology of the icon -- The content of iconography -- Coda: icon and blessing -- 5 Benedict XVI on Holy Images -- Introduction -- The Christological perspective -- The liturgiological perspective -- Conclusion -- PART 3 The Difficulties of Practice -- 6 The French Dominicans and the Journal L'Art sacré -- The project -- The protagonists -- The context -- The establishment of L'Art sacré -- Policy or policies of the Dominicans of 'L'Art sacré' -- A caveat -- 'La querelle de l'art sacré' -- Conclusion -- 7 The English Uses of Maritain's Aesthetics: Eric Gill and David Jones -- The virtue of art -- Maritainian craftsman extraordinary: Eric Gill -- The nature of beauty -- David Jones: Maritainian artist of the sign -- 8 Conclusion: Christ and the Muses -- Index of Names.

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