What Jesus Saw from the Crossby AG Sertillanges, Sophia Institute Press, £12
This beautiful series of reflections and meditations, first published in French in 1930, has just been reissued. Its author, a Dominican priest and scholar, was inspired to write it after spending a year in Jerusalem in 1923.
Although utilising the topography of Jerusalem at the time of Christ (there are maps at the front and back of his book), Fr Sertillanges is not writing about archaeology; this is rather a spiritual and poetic work in which his knowledge of Scripture and biblical history has been enhanced by his gifts of the imagination.
