<div>Originally published in 1983, Leo Steinberg's classic work has changed <br>the viewing habits of a generation. After centuries of repression and <br>censorship, the sexual component in thousands of revered icons of Christ <br>is restored to visibility. Steinberg's evidence resides in the imagery <br>of the overtly sexed Christ, in Infancy and again after death. Steinberg <br>argues that the artists regarded the deliberate exposure of Christ's <br>genitalia as an affirmation of kinship with the human condition. <br>Christ's lifelong virginity, understood as potency under check, and the <br>first offer of blood in the circumcision, both required acknowledgment <br>of the genital organ. More than exercises in realism, these unabashed <br>images underscore the crucial theological import of the Incarnation. <br>This revised and greatly expanded edition not only adduces new visual <br>evidence, but deepens the theological argument and engages the <br>controversy aroused by the book's first publication. <br><br><br><br></div>