“The Beauty of Jesus Christ: Filling out a Scheme of St Augustine”, published in April 2020 is the 75th book written by Fr Gerald O’Collins S.J., who is also the principal chaplain of the Subpriory of the Immaculate Conception.

The Beauty of Jesus Christ provides a comprehensive study of Christ’s beauty, illustrated from every stage of his story. The work begins by offering a working description of what it understands by beauty as being perfect, harmonious, and radiant. Beauty, above all the divine beauty, enjoys inexhaustible meaning and overlaps with ‘the holy’ or the awesome and fascinating mystery of God. Loving beauty opens the way to truth and helps us grasp and practise virtue. This book interrogates Augustine’s account of Christ’s beauty in his Exposition of the Psalms Christ’s and goes beyond Augustine by showing how the imagery and language Jesus prepared in his hidden life and then used in his ministry witness to the beautiful sensibility that developed during his years at home in Nazareth.

The Beauty of Jesus Christ draws on the Scriptures to illustrate and justify Augustine’s brief claims about the beauty revealed in the whole story of Christ, from his pre-existence to his risen ‘post-existence’.

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