Cover 1
Title Page 3
Copyright Page 4
Endorsements 5
Dedication 7
Acknowledgments 13
Introduction 15
1. Paintings in the Roman Catacombs, unknown (paintings, c. 300) 19
2. The Book of Kells, unknown (illuminated manuscript, c. 550) 23
3. Gregorian Chant, unknown (choral works, c. 580) 27
4. Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard of Bingen (choral work, c. 1151) 31
5. Chartres Cathedral, unknown (cathedral, 1134) 35
6. The Windows of Sainte-Chapelle, unknown (stained glass, 1248) 40
7. The Divine Comedy, Dante (poem, c. 1320) 44
8. The Scrovegni Chapel Frescoes, Giotto (paintings, c. 1305) 48
9. The Holy Trinity Icon, Andrei Rublev (painting, c. 1410) 52
10. The Adoration of the Lamb, Jan van Eyck (paintings, 1432) 56
11. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Albrecht Dürer (woodcut, 1498) 60
12. The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch (paintings, c. 1500) 64
13. The Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo (painting, 1508–12) 69
14. “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” Martin Luther (hymn, c. 1529) 74
15. The Procession to Calvary, Pieter Brueghel (painting, 1564) 78
16. The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, El Greco (painting, c. 1586) 82
17. The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio (painting, 1601–2) 87
18. The Holy Sonnets, John Donne (poems, 1633) 92
19. The Temple, George Herbert (poems, 1633) 96
20. Agnus Dei, Francisco de Zurbarán (painting, c. 1635–40) 100
21. St. Teresa in Ecstasy, Bernini (sculpture, 1652) 104
22. The Return of the Prodigal Son, Rembrandt (painting, c. 1669) 109
23. The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan (novel, 1678) 114
24. “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” Isaac Watts (hymn, 1707) 118
25. St. Matthew’s Passion, Johann Sebastian Bach (oratorio, 1727) 122
26. Messiah, Georg Frideric Handel (oratorio, 1741) 126
27. “Amazing Grace,” John Newton (hymn, 1779) 130
28. Songs of Innocence and Experience, William Blake (poems, 1789–94) 134
29. The Creation, Franz Joseph Haydn (oratorio, 1798) 139
30. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (novel, 1813) 143
31. The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich (painting, 1818) 147
32. Symphony no. 5, The Reformation, Felix Mendelssohn (classical music, 1830) 151
33. The Voyage of Life, Thomas Cole (paintings, 1842) 155
34. The Light of the World, William Holman Hunt (painting, 1854) 161
35. The Heart of the Andes, Frederic Edwin Church (painting, 1859) 165
36. Fairy Tales, George MacDonald (stories, c. 1871) 170
37. The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novel, 1879) 174
38. La Sagrada Familia Cathedral, Antoni Gaudi (cathedral, begun 1882) 178
39. Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh (painting, 1889) 183
40. The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, James Tissot (paintings, 1896) 188
41. The Annunciation, Henry Ossawa Tanner (painting, 1898) 192
42. The Complete Poems, Emily Dickinson (poems, 1890) 196
43. The Innocence of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton (short stories, 1911) 201
44. The Life of Christ, Emil Nolde (paintings, 1912) 205
45. Poems, Gerard Manley Hopkins (poems, 1918) 210
46. The Resurrection at Cookham, Stanley Spencer (painting, 1926) 214
47. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather (novel, 1927) 219
48. The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodore Dreyer (film, 1928) 223
49. Head of Christ, Georges Rouault (painting, 1937) 227
50. The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene (novel, 1940) 232
51. Quartet for the End of Time, Olivier Messiaen (classical music, 1941) 236
52. Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot (poems, 1943) 240
53. The Man Born to Be King, Dorothy L. Sayers (drama, 1943) 244
54. Rome, Open City, Roberto Rossellini (film, 1945) 248
55. It’s a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra (film, 1946) 253
56. “I Will Move On Up a Little Higher,” Mahalia Jackson (recording, 1947) 257
57. The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis (children’s stories, 1950–56) 261
58. The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (novels, 1954–55) 266
59. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane (recording, 1964) 270
60. Au Hasard du Balthasar, Robert Bresson (film, 1966) 274
61. Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky (film, 1966) 279
62. Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (novel, 1967) 284
63. At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash (recording, 1968) 288
64. The Complete Stories, Flannery O’Connor (short stories, 1971) 292
65. Only Visiting This Planet, Larry Norman (recording, 1972) 296
66. Symphony no. 3, The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Henryk Górecki (classical music, 1976) 301
67. Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws, Bruce Cockburn (recording, 1979) 305
68. The Second Coming, Walker Percy (novel, 1980) 310
69. The Last Supper, Sadao Watanabe (print, 1981) 315
70. Godric, Frederick Buechner (novel, 1981) 320
71. Infidels, Bob Dylan (recording, 1983) 324
72. The Joshua Tree, U2 (recording, 1987) 329
73. Paradise Garden, Howard Finster (artistic assemblage, c. 1990) 334
74. The Four Holy Gospels, Makoto Fujimura (paintings, 2011) 338
75. The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick (film, 2011) 342
Notes 347
For Further Exploration: A Select Bibliography 355
Back Cover 368