Gerald O'Collins meditates deeply upon the multifaceted beauty of Jesus in a journey lead by Scripture and Augustine. He offers refreshment to the weary by intertwining artistic interludes with insightful scriptural reflections. His brief work opens the fount of inexhaustible divine beauty.
Born in Melbourne (Australia), Gerald O'Collins received his PhD in 1968 at the University of Cambridge, where he was a research fellow at Pembroke College. From 1973 to 2006, he taught fundamental and systematic theology at the Gregorian University (Rome), where he was also dean of the theology faculty (1985-91). He is now an adjunct professor of Australian Catholic University and a research fellow of the University of Divinity (Melbourne). Well known in the UK, US, India, New Zealand, South Africa, his native Australia, and elsewhere as a visiting lecturer, he has published hundreds of articles in professional and popular journals and authored or co-authored 74 books.