A Select Bibliography
General Books on Visual Art
Bell, Kathryn. Our Christian Heritage in Art. Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, 1999.
Brown, Michelle P. The Lion Companion to Christian Art. Oxford: Lion, 2008.
Burkhardt, Titus. The Foundations of Christian Art. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom Press, 2006.
Couchman, Judith. The Art of Faith. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2012.
de Borchgrave, Helen. A Journey into Christian Art. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1999.
Dillenberger, Jane. Style and Content in Christian Art. New York: Abingdon, 1965.
Getlein, Frank, and Dorothy Getlein. Christianity in Modern Art. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing, 1961.
Morey, C. R. Christian Art. New York: W. W. Norton, 1935.
Newton, Eric, and William Neil. 2000 Years of Christian Art. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.
Romaine, James. Art as Spiritual Perception. Wheaton: Crossway, 2012.
Rookmaaker, Hans. Complete Works of Hans Rookmaaker in Five Volumes. Carlisle, UK: Piquant, 2002.
General Books on Music
Dowley, Tim. Christian Music: A Global History. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2011.
Dubal, David. The Essential Canon of Classical Music. New York: North Point, 2001.
Kavanaugh, Patrick. The Music of Angels. Chicago: Loyola Press, 1999.
———. The Spiritual Lives of Great Composers. Nashville: Sparrow, 1992.
Mellers, Wilfrid. Celestial Music? Some Masterpieces of European Religious Music. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 2002.
Nicholas, Jeremy. The Great Composers. London: Quercus, 2007.
Smith, Jane Stuart, and Betty Carlson. The Gift of Music. Wheaton: Crossway, 1987.
Wilson-Dickson, Andrew. The Story of Christian Music. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.
Cowan, Louise, and Os Guinness. Invitation to the Classics. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1998.
Johnson, Paul. Creators. New York: Harper and Row, 2006.
Paglia, Camille. Break, Blow, Burn. New York: Pantheon, 2005.
Pearce, Joseph. Literary Converts. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1999.
Rollwer, Julia, ed. 25 Books Every Christian Should Read. New York: HarperOne, 2011.
Schmidt, Michael. Lives of the Poets. New York: Random House, 1998.
———. The Novel: A Biography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
General Books on Film
Bandy, Maria Lee, and Antonio Monda, eds. The Hidden God: Film and Faith. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003.
Cawkwell, Tim. The New Filmgoer’s Guide to God. Leicestershire, UK: Matador, 2014.
Cousins, Mark. The Story of Film. London: Pavillion, 2011.
Johnston, Robert K. Reel Spirituality. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000.
Mast, Gerald. A Short History of the Movies. New York: Macmillan, 1992.
Morefield, Kenneth. Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
Schrader, Paul. Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer. New York: Da Capo Press, 1972.
Thomson, David. The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012.
———. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film. New York: Knopf, 2010.
Art of the Roman Catacombs
Johnson, Robin Margaret. Understanding Early Christian Art. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Lowden, John. Early Christian and Byzantine Art. London: Phaidon, 1997.
Lowrie, Walter. Art in the Early Church. New York: W. W. Norton, 1947.
The Book of Kells and Illuminated Manuscripts
The Book of Kells: The Work of Angels? DVD. Directed by Murray Grigor. Forked River, NJ: Kultur Video, 2001.
Brown, Peter, ed. The Book of Kells. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.
de Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. London: Phaidon, 1994.
Walther, Ingo, and Norbert Wolf. Masterpieces of Illumination. Köln: Taschen, 2005.
Gregorian Chant
Foil, David. Gregorian Chant and Polyphony. New York: Black Dog Music Library, 1995.
Hourlier, Dom Jacques. Reflections on the Spirituality of Gregorian Chant. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 1995.
Le Mee, Katharine. Chant. New York: Bell Tower, 1994.
Smith, Huston, ed. Gregorian Chant: Songs of the Spirit. San Francisco: KQED Books, 1996.
Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen. Mystical Writings. New York: Crossroad, 1993.
Hildegard von Bingen in Portrait: Ordo Virtutum. DVD. Directed by Michael Fields. Forked River, NJ: Kultur Video, 2008.
Jaoudi, Maria. Medieval and Renaissance Spirituality. Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2010.
Sukowa, Barbara. Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen. DVD. Directed by Margarethe von Trotta. New York: Zeitgeist Video, 2011.
Chartres Cathedral and Gothic Cathedrals
Barron, Robert. Heaven in Stone and Glass. New York: Crossroad, 2000.
Branner, Robert. Chartres Cathedral. New York: W. W. Norton, 1969.
Ciaga, Graziella Leyla. Cathedrals of the World. New York: Metro Books, 2006.
Cook, William. The Cathedral. DVD. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2010.
Miller, Malcolm. Chartres Cathedral. Andover, PA: Pitkin, 1996.
Sainte-Chapelle and the Art of Stained Glass
Brown, Sarah. Stained Glass: An Illustrated History. London: Bracken Books, 1994.
de Finance, Laurence. Sainte-Chapelle. Paris: Itineraires du Patrimoine, 1999.
The Divine Comedy, Dante
Dante. The Divine Comedy. Translated by John Ciardi. New York: New American Library, 1970.
———. Vita Nuova. Translated by Mark Musa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.
Holmes, George. Dante. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.
The Scrovegni Chapel, Giotto
Corrain, Lucia. Giotto and Medieval Art. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1995.
Stubblebine, James, ed. Giotto: The Arena Chapel Frescoes. New York: W. W. Norton, 1969.
Wolf, Norbert. Giotto. Köln: Taschen, 2006.
The Holy Trinity Icon, Andrei Rublev
Beckett, Sister Wendy. Real Presence: In Search of the Earliest Icons. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2010.
Haustein-Bartsch, Eva. Icons. Köln: Taschen, 2008.
Martin, Linette. Sacred Doorways: A Beginner’s Guide to Icons. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2002.
Nouwen, Henri J. M. Behold the Beauty of the Lord: Praying With Icons. Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 1987.
The Adoration of the Lamb, Jan van Eyck
Borchert, Till-Holger. Van Eyck. Köln: Taschen, 2008.
Charney, Noah. Stealing the Mystic Lamb. New York: Public Affairs, 2010.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Albrecht Dürer
Forty, Sandra. Albrecht Dürer. Surrey, UK: TAJ Press, 2012.
Wolf, Norbert. Dürer. Köln: Taschen, 2006.
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch
Belting, Hans. Hieronymous Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights. London: Prestel, 2012.
Bosing, Walter. Bosch. Köln: Taschen, 2000.
The Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo
Buonarrotti, Michaelangelo. The Poems. Translated by Christopher Ryan. London: Dent, 1996.
Graham-Dixon, Andrew. Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel. New York: Skyhorse, 2009.
Gromling, Alexandra. Michelangelo Buonarroti: Life and Work. Konigswater: Konemann, 2005.
Neret, Giles. Michelangelo. Köln: Taschen, 2000.
Richmond, Robin. Michelangelo and the Creation of the Sistine Chapel. New York: Crescent Books, 1995.
“A Mighty Fortress Is Our God,” Martin Luther
Bainton, Roland. Here I Stand. New York: New American Library, 1955.
Eggert, Kurt. “Martin Luther, God’s Music Man.” Lecture at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary, November 10, 1983. http://www.wlsessays.net/node/465.
Oberman, Heiko. Luther: The Man Between God and the Devil. New York: Image Books, 1992.
The Procession to Calvary, Pieter Brueghel
Hagen, Rose-Marie, and Rainer Hagen. Brueghel. Köln: Taschen, 2000.
Hughes, Penelope Le Fanu. Great Masters: Brueghel. Edison, NJ: Chartwell, 2003.
Vohringer, Christian. Pieter Brueghel. Potsdam: H. F. Ullmann, 2013.
The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, El Greco
Bray, Xavier. El Greco. London: National Gallery Books, 2004.
Kasel, Ronda. Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2009.
Romaine, James. “El Greco’s Mystical Vision.” God Spy (blog). October 22, 2003. http://oldarchive.godspy.com/culture/El-Grecos-Mystical-Vision.cfm.html.
Scholz-Hansel, Michael. El Greco. Köln: Taschen, 2004.
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio
König, Eberhard. Caravaggio. Potsdam: H. F. Ullmann, 2013.
Lambert, Giles. Caravaggio. Köln: Taschen, 2000.
Prose, Francine. Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
The Holy Sonnets, John Donne
Donne, John. John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers. Edited by John Booty. New York: Paulist Press, 1990.
Kaveney, Roz. How to Believe: John Donne. London: Guardian Books, 2013.
The Temple, George Herbert
Herbert, George. The Country Parson, The Temple. New York: Paulist Press, 1981.
Piper, John. Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully. Wheaton: Crossway, 2014.
Agnus Dei, Francisco de Zurbarán
Alcolea, Santiago. Zurbarán. Barcelona: Editiones Poligrafa, 2008.
Kasel, Ronda, ed. Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2009.
Wilson, William. “Zurbarán: The Pain of Spirituality.” Los Angeles Times. October 4, 1987.
St. Teresa in Ecstasy, Bernini
Hibbard, Howard. Bernini. New York: Penguin, 1990.
MacDonnell, Joseph, S.J. “Chapter Two: Artistic Expression of Jesuit Values.” http://faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/sj/cj/cj2art.html. Excerpt from Companions of Jesuits: A Tradition of Collaboration. Fairfield, CT: Fairfield University, 1995.
The Return of the Prodigal Son, Rembrandt
Bockemühl, Michael. Rembrandt. Köln: Taschen, 2000.
Bonafoux, Pascal. Rembrandt: Master of the Portrait. New York: Abrams, 1992.
Dewitt, Lloyd, ed. Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2011.
Durham, John I. The Biblical Rembrandt. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2004.
Housden, Roger. How Rembrandt Reveals Your Beautiful, Imperfect Self. New York: Harmony Books, 2005.
Rosenberg, Jakob. Rembrandt: Life and Work. New York: Phaidon, 1964.
The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
Bunyan, John. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. New York: Penguin, 1987.
———. The Pilgrim’s Progress. New York: Penguin, 2009.
Venables, Edmund. The Life of John Bunyan. Public domain eBook, n.d.
“When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” Isaac Watts; “Amazing Grace,” John Newton
Bond, Douglas. The Poetic Wonder of Isaac Watts. Crawfordsville, IN: Reformation Trust, 2013.
Cook, Faith. Our Hymn Writers and Their Hymns. Faverdale North, UK: Evangelical Press, 2005.
Houghton, Elsie. Classic Christian Hymn Writers. Fort Washington, PA: CLC Publishing, 1982.
Ryden, Ernest Edwin. The Story of Our Hymns. Rock Island, IL: Augustana Book Concern, 1930.
Smith, Jane Stuart, and Betty Carlson. Great Christian Hymn Writers. Wheaton: Crossway, 1997.
Turner, Steve. Amazing Grace: The Story of America’s Most Beloved Song. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.
Watts, Isaac. A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody, 1707.
St. Matthew’s Passion, Johann Sebastian Bach
Greenburg, Robert. Bach and the High Baroque. DVD. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 1995.
Koopman, Ton, and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir. Bach: Matthäus Passion. DVD. Amersfoort, Netherlands: Challenge Classics, 2006.
Marschall, Rick. Johann Sebastian Bach. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2011.
Pelikan, Jaraslov. Bach among the Theologians. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986.
Messiah, Georg Frideric Handel
Keates, Jonathan. Handel: The Man and His Music. New York: Random House, 2009.
Slover, Tim. Messiah: The Little-Known Story of Handel’s Beloved Oratorio. Chicago: Silver Leaf Press, 2007.
Songs of Innocence and Experience, William Blake
Blake, William. William Blake: A Selection of Poems and Letters. New York: Penguin, 1958.
Langridge, Irene. William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work. London: Chiswick Press, 1904.
Muggeridge, Malcolm. A Third Testament. New York: Little, Brown, 1976.
Sagar, Keith. “William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience.” http://www.keithsagar.co.uk/Blake/index.html.
The Creation, Franz Joseph Haydn
Greenburg, Robert. Haydn: His Life and Music. DVD. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2000.
Hogwood, Christopher, Emma Kirby, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, and Michael George. Haydn—The Creation: Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music. DVD. Directed by Chris Hunt. London: Decca Classics, 2007.
Stapert, Calvin R. Playing Before the Lord: The Life and Work of Joseph Haydn. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Collins, Irene. Jane Austen: The Parson’s Daughter. London: Continuum, 1998.
Giffin, Michael. Jane Austen’s Religious Imagination: A Balance of Reason and Feeling. Kindle edition. Amazon Digital Services, 2013.
Glaspey, Terry, ed. The Prayers of Jane Austen. Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 2015.
Leithart, Peter J. Jane Austen. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2009.
Stovel, Bruce. “A Nation Improving in Religion.” Persuasions no. 16. Jane Austen Society of North America, 1994. http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/printed/number16/stovel.htm.
The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich
Rewald, Sabine. The Romantic Vision of Caspar David Friedrich. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990.
Russo, Raffaella. Friedrich. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1999.
Vaughan, William. Friedrich. New York: Phaidon, 2004.
Wolf, Norbert. Friedrich. Köln: Taschen, 2003.
Symphony no. 5, The Reformation, Felix Mendelssohn
Lagomarsino, Tom. “Felix Mendelssohn.” Christian Reformed Ink Archives (blog). March 15, 2011. https://christianreformedink.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/felix-mendelssohn/.
Wenborn, Neil. Mendelssohn: His Life and Music. New York: Naxos Books, 2008.
The Voyage of Life, Thomas Cole; The Heart of the Andes, Frederic Edwin Church
Baigell, Matthew. Thomas Cole. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1985.
Cooper, James F. Knights of the Brush: The Hudson River School of Painting and the Moral Landscape. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1999.
Kelly, Franklin. Frederic Edwin Church. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1989.
Millhouse, Barbara Babcock. American Wilderness: The Story of the Hudson River School of Painting. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978.
Ryan, James Anthony. Frederic Church’s Olana. New York: Black Dome Press, 2001.
Veith, Gene Edward. Painters of Faith: The Spiritual Landscape in Nineteenth Century America. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2001.
The Light of the World, William Holman Hunt
Adams, Steven. The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites. London: Quintet, 1988.
des Cars, Laurence. The Pre-Raphaelites: Romance and Realism. New York: Abrams, 2000.
Lochnan, Katharine, and Carol Jacobi, eds. Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision. Ontario, Canada: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2008.
Robinson, Michael. The Pre-Raphaelites: Their Lives and Works in 500 Images. Leistershire, UK: Lorenz Books, 2012.
Fairy Tales, George MacDonald
Hein, Roland. The Harmony Within: The Spiritual Vision of George MacDonald. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982.
MacDonald, George. The Complete Fairy Tales. London: Penguin, 1999.
Manlove, C. N. “George MacDonald’s Fairy Tales: Their Roots in MacDonald’s Thought,” Studies in Scottish Literature 8:2. January 10, 1970. http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/vol8/iss2/12.
Phillips, Michael. George MacDonald. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2002.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Fritz Eichenberg, and Hutterian Brethren. The Gospel in Dostoyevsky. Farmington, PA: Plough Publications, 1988.
Frank, Joseph. Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Gunn, Judith. Dostoevsky: Dreamer and Prophet. Oxford: Lion, 1990.
Mochulsky, Konstantin. Dostoevsky: His Life and Work. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971.
La Sagrada Familia Cathedral, Antoni Gaudi
Boada, Isidro Puig, and Seiji Miyaguchi. Antonio Gaudi. DVD. Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara. New York: Criterion Collection, 2008.
Crippa, Maria Antonietta. Gaudi. Köln: Taschen, 2007.
Ivereigh, Austen. “God’s Architect.” America. September 27, 2010.
Kuhl, Isabel. 50 Buildings You Should Know. Munich: Prestel, 2007.
van Hensbergen, Gijs. Gaudi: A Biography. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh
Bernard, Bruce, ed. Vincent by Himself: A Selection of His Paintings and Drawings Together with Extracts from His Letters. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2004.
Bonafoux, Pascal. Van Gogh: The Passionate Eye. New York: Abrams, 1992.
Edwards, Cliff. Van Gogh and God. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1989.
Erickson, Kathleen Powers. At Eternity’s Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.
Naifeh, Steven, and Gregory White Smith. Van Gogh: The Life. New York: Random House, 2011.
Thomson, Richard. Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2008.
Walther, Ingo F. Van Gogh. Köln: Taschen, 2000.
The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, James Tissot
Dolkart, Judith, ed. James Tissot: The Life of Jesus. New York: Brooklyn Museum/Merrill, 2009.
Muffs, Yochanan, and Gert Schiff. James Tissot: Biblical Paintings. New York: The Jewish Museum, 1982.
Warner, Malcolm. Tissot. London: Medici Society, 1982.
The Annunciation, Henry Ossawa Tanner
Bruce, Marcus. Henry Ossawa Tanner: A Spiritual Biography. New York: Crossroad, 2002.
Marley, Anna O., ed. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 2012.
The Complete Poems, Emily Dickinson
Carpini, John Delli. Emily Dickinson: Poetry as Prayer. Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 2002.
Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. New York: Little, Brown, 1976.
Doyle, Connie. “Experiment in Green: Emily Dickinson’s Search for Faith.” The Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Albert the Great. http://opcentral.org/resources/2015/01/21/connie-doyle-experiment-in-green-emily-dickinsons-search-for-faith/.
LeMay, Kristin. I Told My Soul to Sing: Finding God with Emily Dickinson. Brewster, MA: Paraclete Press, 2013.
The Innocence of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton, G. K. The Penguin Complete Father Brown. New York: Penguin, 1981.
Coren, Michael. Gilbert: The Man Who Was G. K. Chesterton. New York: Paragon House, 1990.
Dale, Alzina Stone. The Outline of Sanity: A Life of G. K. Chesterton. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982.
Peters, Thomas C. Battling for the Modern Mind: A Beginner’s Chesterton. St. Louis, MO: Concordia, 1994.
The Life of Christ, Emil Nolde
Evens, Jonathan. “Emil Nolde: Inner Religious Feeling.” Between (blog). March 7, 2012. http://joninbetween.blogspot.com/2012/03/emil-nolde-inner-religious-feeling.html.
Juneau-Lafond, Jean-David. “Emile Nolde,” The Art Tribune. November 11, 2008.
Selz, Peter. Emil Nolde. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1963.
Poems, Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. Mortal Beauty, God’s Grace: Major Poems and Spiritual Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins. New York: Vintage Books, 2003.
Lichtmann, Maria. Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poetry as Prayer. Boston: Pauline Books and Media, 2002.
Mariani, Paul. Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life. New York: Viking, 2008.
White, Norman. Hopkins: A Literary Biography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
The Resurrection at Cookham, Stanley Spencer
Cottrell, Stephen. Christ in the Wilderness. London: SPCK, 2012.
Harries, Richard. “Understanding Faith Through the Eyes of Stanley Spencer—The Rt Revd Lord Richard Harries.” Lecture at Gresham College, March 16, 2011. YouTube video. 1:00:05. Uploaded on August 26, 2011 by GreshamCollege. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhHRFyrEteE.
Hauser, Kitty. Stanley Spencer. London: Tate Publishing, 2001.
MacCarthy, Fiona. Stanley Spencer: An English Vision. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
Birzer, Bradley J. “The Christian Humanism of Willa Cather.” The Imaginative Conservative (blog). August 27, 2013. http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2013/08/the-christian-humanism-of-willa-cather.html.
Brown, E. K. Willa Cather. New York: Avon Books, 1953.
Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. New York: Vintage, 1990.
McInerny, Ralph. Some Catholic Writers. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2007.
Ryan, James Emmett. Faithful Passages: American Catholicism in Literary Culture, 1844–1931. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.
The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodore Dreyer
Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier. DVD. Directed by Torben Skjødt Jensen. New York: Criterion Collection, 2001.
Dreyer, Carl Theodore. Jesus: A Great Filmmaker’s Final Masterwork. New York: Dell, 1971.
Falconetti, Renee. The Passion of Joan of Arc. DVD. Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. New York: Criterion Collection, 1999.
Garrett, Daniel. “The Evidence of Things Not Seen.” Cinetext. March 28, 2006. http://cinetext.philo.at/magazine/garrett/joanofarc.html.
Hamaker, Christian. “The Spiritual Cinema of Carl Theodor Dreyer.” Crosswalk. December 5, 2001. http://www.crosswalk.com/1134400/.
Head of Christ, Georges Rouault
Dyrness, William A. Rouault: A Vision of Suffering and Salvation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1971.
Faerna, Jose Maria. Rouault. New York: Cameo-Abrams, 1997.
Flora, Holly, and Soo Yun Kang. Miserere et Guerre: The Anguished World of Shadows. New York: Museum of Biblical Art, 2006.
Maritain, Jacques. Rouault. New York: Abrams, 1954.
The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
Giffin, Michael. Graham Greene’s Catholic Novels. Kindle edition. Amazon Digital Services, 2013.
Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory. New York: Penguin, 1978.
Jacobi, Derek, and Bill Nighy. Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene. DVD. Directed by Thomas P. O’Connor. Arlington, VA: PBS Videos, 2013.
Sherry, Norman. The Life of Graham Greene (3 vols.). Toronto: Lester and Orpen Denneys, 1989–2004.
Tengo, Alex. Graham Greene: Bipolar Catholic. Kindle edition. Amazon Australia Services, 2013.
Quartet for the End of Time, Olivier Messiaen
Bannister, Peter. “Olivier Messiaen—‘Plain Old Propaganda’?” Thinking Faith (blog). December 10, 2008. http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/20081210_1.htm.
Osborne, Steven. “Olivier Messiaen: Beyond Time and Space.” The Guardian. August 7, 2014.
Shenton, Andrew, ed. Messiaen the Theologian. London: Ashgate, 2010.
Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot
Ackroyd, Peter. T. S. Eliot: A Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.
Booty, John. Meditating on Four Quartets. Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 1983.
Dale, Alzina Stone. T. S. Eliot: The Philosopher Poet. Wheaton: Harold Shaw, 1988.
Eliot, T. S. Four Quartets. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1943.
———. Selected Prose of T. S. Eliot. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1975.
Gordon, Lyndall. Eliot’s New Life. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1988.
The Man Born to Be King, Dorothy L. Sayers
Durkin, Mary Brian. “Dorothy L. Sayers: A Christian Humanist for Today.” Religion Online. Accessed March 20, 2015. http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1267.
Godfrey, Monica. “The Man Born to Be King: Contextualizing the Kingdom.” Inklings Forever vol. 7. 2010. http://library.taylor.edu/dotAsset/c95cbdf7-0d3e-497f-9d33-0dd3dde0c4ad.pdf.
Meilander, Gilbert. “The Greatest Drama Ever.” Touchstone. March/April 2013.
Reynolds, Barbara. Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Sayers, Dorothy L. Letters to a Diminished Church. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2004.
———. The Man Born to Be King. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1990.
Rome, Open City, Roberto Rossellini
Gallagher, Tag. The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini. San Francisco: Da Capo, 1998.
Morefield, Kenneth. “Roberto Rossellini and the Moral Point of View.” Christianity Today. May 13, 2013. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2013/may-web-only/roberto-rossellini-and-moral-point-of-view.html.
Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy. DVD. Directed by Roberto Rossellini. New York: Criterion Collection, 2009.
It’s a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra
Blake, Richard A. After Image: The Indelible Catholic Imagination of Six American Filmmakers. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2000.
Capra, Frank. The Name Above the Title. Boston: Da Capo Press, 1997.
de Las Carreras Kuntz, Maria Elena. “The Catholic Vision of Frank Capra.” Crisis Magazine. February 1, 2002. http://www.crisismagazine.com/2002/the-catholic-vision-of-frank-capra-2.
Schickel, Richard. Frank Capra: A Life in Film. New York: New World City, 2011.
Stewart, James, Donna Reed, and Lionel Barrymore. It’s a Wonderful Life. DVD. Directed by Frank Capra. Hollywood: Paramount Home Entertainment, 2007.
“I Will Move On Up a Little Higher,” Mahalia Jackson
Jackson, Mahalia. Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory. Directed by Jeff Scheftel. DVD. Santa Monica, CA: Xenon Pictures, 2003.
The Story of Gospel Music: The Power in the Voice. Directed by James Marsh and Andrew Dunne. DVD. London: BBC Warner, 1996.
Willman, Chris. “How Gospel Great Mahalia Jackson Gave Wing to MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech.” Yahoo Music. January 18, 2015. https://www.yahoo.com/music/how-gospel-great-mahalia-jackson-gave-wing-to-108223937471.html.
The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis
Glaspey, Terry. Not a Tame Lion: The Spiritual Legacy of C. S. Lewis. Elkton, MD: Highland Books, 1996.
Jacobs, Alan. The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis. New York: HarperOne, 2005.
Lewis, C. S. Surprised by Joy. New York: Harcourt, 1955.
McGrath, Alister. C. S. Lewis: A Life. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2013.
Sayer, George. Jack: C. S. Lewis and His Times. New York: Harper and Row, 1988.
The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien
Carpenter, Humphrey, ed. The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1981.
———. Tolkien: The Authorized Biography. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.
Duriez, Colin. The J. R. R. Tolkien Handbook. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992.
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A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
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Au Hasard du Balthasar, Robert Bresson
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Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky
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———. Sculpting in Time. Austin: University of Texas, 1986.
Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash
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Urbanski, Dave. The Man Comes Around: The Spiritual Journey of Johnny Cash. Lake Mary, FL: Relevant Books, 2003.
The Complete Stories, Flannery O’Connor
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Only Visiting This Planet, Larry Norman
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———. “Only Visiting This Planet.” National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress. 2013. http://www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/registry/essays/only%20visiting.pdf.
Symphony no. 3, The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Henryk Górecki
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Dancing in the Dragon’s Jaws, Bruce Cockburn
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The Second Coming, Walker Percy
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The Last Supper, Sadao Watanabe
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Godric, Frederick Buechner
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Infidels, Bob Dylan
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The Joshua Tree, U2
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Paradise Garden, Howard Finster
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The Four Holy Gospels, Makoto Fujimura
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The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick
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