Despite his militant atheism, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) exploited the symbols of Christianity, especially the Crucifixion and the Pope, throughout his career. Rina Arya explains how the artist redeployed religious iconography both to show Christianity's untenability in the modern age and to convey an experience of the human condition. 'Rina Arya's book fills a void in current scholarship of Francis Bacon by intelligently and creatively considering his frequently neglected, and rather misunderstood, relationship with Christianity'. Art & Christianity