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1 Corinthians


The Crucifixion, by Graham Sutherland
Sophia, Wisdom of God, by an unknown artist
Pentecost, from the Ingeborg Psalter (Psalterium Ingeburgae reginae)

1 Corinthians 2 Divine Incognito

Ánima Sola (Lonely Soul) BY Juan Cartagena
Shrine of the Souls in Purgatory by Unknown Spanish artist
Purgatory; print after the lower part of the painting by Peter Paul Rubens 'St Teresa of Avila interceding for Bernardino de Mendoza' by Cornelis Galle I

1 Corinthians 3:12–15 Purgatory

The First Supper, by Susan Dorothea White
Reconciliation Reredos, by Graeme Mortimer Evelyn
Empty Stare, by I Nyoman Darsane

1 Corinthians 11:17–33 Discerning the Body

Give or Take by Louise Bourgeois
A Scullion at Christ Church College, Oxford by John Riley
Terracotta votives; marble finger (S 1492), from excavation at Asklepieion by unknown artists

1 Corinthians 12 You are the Body of Christ

Terracotta Campana Relief of Three Curetes with Swords and Shields, Protecting the Infant Zeus, by an unknown Roman artist
Through a Glass Darkly (On the Night Bus), by Nick Turpin
One of the Seven Virtues: Caritas (Charity), by Pieter Bruegel I

1 Corinthians 13 Reflective Love

General Resurrection from the Bamberg-Eichstätt Psalter by unknown German artist
Sarcophagus of Theodore by Unknown Italian artist
The Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer

1 Corinthians 15:35–58 Bodily Resurrection


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General Resurrection from the Bamberg-Eichstätt Psalter by unknown German artist
Sarcophagus of Theodore by Unknown Italian artist
The Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer

1 Corinthians 15:35–58 Bodily Resurrection

Yellow Crucifixion by Marc Chagall
Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way (Domine, Quo Vadis?) by Annibale Carracci
The Last Judgement by The Last Judgement

1 Peter 4:12–19 Finding Meaning in Suffering

The War in Heaven (pane 7g), part of The Great East Window of York Minster
Saint Michael and the Devil by Unknown Spanish Artist
The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Revelation 12:7–12 War in Heaven

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