Christmas without borders
A new book tells the
nativity story, using images by artist and iconographers down the
ages and around the globe
Visitations: The
Annunciation, icon from the Peribleptos Church (St Clement),
early 14th century, National Museum, Ohrid, Macedonia
Visitations: The
Annunciation, icon from the Peribleptos Church (St Clement),
early 14th century, National Museum, Ohrid, Macedonia
IN A King James
Christmas, passages from the Authorised Version, selected by
Michael Fitzgerald, tell the story of the birth of Jesus, providing
a familiar spine to a text that is meant to be read aloud. The
artist Catherine Schuon has chosen images to illustrate the text,
including some of her own. They are drawn from a wide range of
countries, including Italy, Spain, the UK, Greece, and Ethiopia,
and lend an international flavour to the story.
But the book is not simply a
Christmas title. It takes the story beyond the infancy: parts two
and three look at the childhood of Christ, and his teachings
respectively.
A King James Christmas:
Biblical selections with illustrations from around the world,
edited by Catherine Schuon and Michael Fitzgerald, is published by
Wisdom Tales at £12.99 (Church Times Bookshop £11.69);
978-1-937786-03-8.
All images used by
kind permission of Wisdom Tales.
Browse Church and Charity jobs on the Church Times jobsite