CONTENTS
FOREWORD
Robert Ellsberg ix
INTRODUCTION
Opening the Eyes of the Heart
Christopher Pramuk 1
PART I
CHILDHOOD AND JESUIT BEGINNINGS 13
1. A Vision to Share 15
2. The Unseen World Is Real 25
3. God in All Things 34
4. The Zen of Seeing 45
PART II ILLUSTRATOR,
HOSPICE MINISTER, PRIEST 55
5. Unless You Become Like a Child 57
6. Arrows into the Heart of the Church 72
7. Midwives to the Second Birth 85
8. The Flowering Wounds 97
PART III ICONOGRAPHER:
FRIEND OF PROPHETS, PILGRIMS, AND SAINTS 109
9. Images That Return Our Love 111
10. Splashed by the Blood 125
11. What You Gaze Upon You Become 142
12. Then We Shall See Face to Face 159
POSTSCRIPT Apocalypsis and Veronike: Art as Participation
in the Work of God the Creator William Hart McNichols 175
AFTERWORD The Iconography of William Hart McNichols
Robert Lentz, OFM 177
DAYS IN THE LIFE OF WILLIAM HART MCNICHOLS 179
BIBLIOGRAPHY / ADDITIONAL READING 184
NOTES 185