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Learning Through Art: The Crucifixion by Raphael

In this issue of The Sower, Learning through Art provides work sheets to help subscribers analyze and meditate upon the "Mond Crucifixion" by Raphael. In a particular way, Learning through Art focuses on how the painting illustrates the Mass as much as it does the Crucifixion. Highlighting its Contrasts and Harmony, Caroline Farey shows how the painting depicts Time and Eternity, Death and Life, Heaven and Earth.

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Caroline Farey divides her time between teaching catechetics and philosophy. She was the Director of the BA in Applied Theology for Catechesis at the Maryvale Institute in England, and is Lecturer in Philosophy at St Mary's College, Oscott, the Seminary for the Archdiocese of Birmingham, where she teaches Metaphysics, Epistemology, and St Thomas Aquinas. She is a regular contributor to The Sower, writing the "Learning Through Art" column and sees The Sower as a key means of ensuring a creative ongoing formation for DREs and key catechists. Her degrees included a MA in Theology and a Licence in Philosophy from the Pontifical University, Maynooth, as well as an S.T.L from the Pontifical University Louvain, and a doctorate from Lateran University in Rome. She was also contributing editor to The Pedagogy of God.

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