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The artistic portrayal of the life events of Jesus Christ have taken many different forms throughout the centuries from altarpieces, triptychs, and diptychs to more modern standalone paintings. Paintings depicting the life of Christ were designed to produce an emotive response. That is, arousing or able to arouse intense feelings by re-narrating biblical events in visual form.
Sacred images of Christ were used for both private devotion and for public worship. In art history the life of Christ as narrative cycle typically consisted of five categories. Focusing upon the life of Christ as a narrative cycle; participants will explore and contemplate the narrative sequence of Jesus' life story stage by stage.
Sr. Dr. Carolyn Morrison is a sister of the Religious of the Assumption (r.a.). She gained her BA in Theology, and a MA in Pastoral Theology at Heythrop College. She completed her PhD in Visual Theology at St Mary’s Catholic University, Twickenham (2021). She works as a Chaplain at Newman House, Central Catholic Chaplaincy for London’s Universities. She was also a Chaplain to Heythrop College (2013-14). She gives retreats to university students, teachers and chaplains. She tutors on the module An Interdisciplinary Encounter with the Sacred at St Mary’s University, Twickenham. She reviews scholarly articles for publication in the journal of International Studies in Catholic Education for the Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. Her research interests mainly concern the use of visual theology: in contemporary Catholic Education based upon the Theological Aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar.
