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Creation

In theological terms, creation is both an action of God, and the result of that action. Creation is all that has been made: human and non-human; sentient and non-sentient. The word ‘creation’ denotes the earth, and the larger universe of which it is part. But creation also names the free divine initiative which has summoned that universe into being and declared ‘it is good’. The exhibitions that follow explore both aspects of the word, as well as the way that Christianity proclaims the renewal of creation, beginning on the morning of the resurrection.

The Ark of the Covenant
Mary Magdalene by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo
Rotunda of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

John 20:1–16 Mary Magdalene at the Tomb

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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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