What Would Jesus See

<p><b>What would Jesus see if he looked at the world around us today?</b></p><p>In these pages Aaron Rosen one of the world's leading experts on art and religion tackles this question by considering Jesus as a visual thinker. He invites readers to use their imagination to explore with him how Jesus saw what he saw and why it is important today.</p><p>Rosen brings a fresh lens to the Gospels informed by his experience as an art curator and scholar as well as his life as a practicing Jew married to an Episcopal priest. He examines Jesus's eye for spectacle his strategies for attentiveness and his tools for discerning truth amid the flurry of false appearances.</p><p>As Rosen applies Jesus's unique ways of seeing the world to key challenges facing society today he taps a surprising trove of examples drawn from art current events and popular culture. At the core of Jesus's ministry Rosen finds is a call to look at our world--especially those who are most disadvantaged--with radical empathy. In a time when our eyes have grown weary and unfocused Rosen argues Jesus offers us the chance to see the world with renewed vision focused on those who need us most.</p>