William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In his paintings, Hunt fused rich iconography and colourful realism to offer a new symbolic language to replace what he saw as the dead symbols of the past. Hunt attempted to communicate spiritual or transcendental ideals, to present and analyse the social and moral challenges which came with industrialization and urbanization, and to satisfy the hopes and longings of the human heart. In this, the goals of Hunt and his Pre-Raphaelite colleagues helps us to see both the broader significance, and the theological and social importance, of the work of E. B. Pusey and his colleagues John Keble and John Henry Newman to read and interpret the Bible, the Church and the lives of Christians, and the whole created order, with the help of the symbolic language they found in the early, and later, Christian interpreters of the Bible.