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Illuminated by paintings including Sir Edward John Poynter’s The Prodigal’s Return, Amedeo Bocchi’s On the Lawn, Jacopo Bassano’s The Last Supper, Caravaggio’s The Taking of Christ, Antonio Ciseri’s Ecce Homo, Salvador Dali’s Christ of St. John of the Cross, and El Greco’s Piet, McGrath’s new volume vividly explores the divine compassion that led God to sacrifice his only Son to save a world...

human nature is worthless, hopeless and insignificant. It is only when we see ourselves as we really are that we realize our need for transformation and our own inability to bring this about. The Christian gospel beautifully marries divine affirmation with divine judgement. In reflecting on the cross of Christ, we realize both the extent of God’s love for us, and our need for redemption. So what is our problem? And how does the gospel connect up with our predicament and transform it? The great tradition
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