Seeing Jesus: visionary encounters from the first century to the present

Contents

1. You Just Want to See His Face

Part One: Disciples

2. The Doubter: Thomas

3. The Stranger Within: Cleopas, His Companion, and Mary

4. "On the Right Hand of God": Stephen, Paul, and Ananias

5. VOOM!: John of Patmos

Part Two: Ascetics

6. Demons and a Dream: Anthony of Egypt and Martin of Tours

7. God's Grouch: Jerome

8. Apocryphal Visions: The Gnostics

Part Three: Mystics

9. The Shadow of Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen

10. "Repair My House": Francis of Assisi

11. "All Shall Be Well": Julian of Norwich

12. "It Is Full Merry in Heaven": Margery Kempe.

Part Four: Trailblazers

13. Quakers, Shakers, and Groundbreakers: George Fox, Jacob Boehme, Public Universal Friend, Mother Ann Lee, Emanuel Swedenborg, and the Spanish Mystics

14. To Imagine Is to See: William Blake

15. "I Know You, and I Don't Know You": Sojourner Truth

16. Revival Fires: Lorenzo Dow, Charles Finney, and Joseph Smith.

Part Five: Moderns

17. "Keep Your Mind in Hell": Silouan the Athonite

18. "O God-If There Is a God": Sadhu Sundar Singh

19. Inner Locutions: Mother Teresa

20. Tortillas and Televangelists: Maria Morales Rubio and Oral Roberts

Epilogue: The Face of Faces

Acknowledgments

Appendix: Visions of Jesus-A List

Notes

Selected Bibliography