The book identifies the central role of the visions of God in late antique society, arguing that expectation of visions (“Visionserwartung”) structured much of late antique life. The author demonstrates that through images and spaces, late antique people created encounters with the invisible Christian God. Due to their immaterial and temporary nature, these visions allowed late antique people to circumvent the Old Testament prohibition of images of God. It was only with a change in the understanding of images at the end of Late Antiquity that images of visions became problematic and their importance began to decline.