accessibility, 117–18
Adams, Ansel, 55
aesthetics, 39, 59–63, 120–22, 130, 135–36
agnosticism, 112
altar call, 139
Anglicanism, 14, 136, 138, 139, 141, 142
anxiety, 93
Apostles’ Creed, 149–50
appropriation, 81
ark of the covenant, 23
and Christianity, 104–13
ourselves as, 21–25
as religion, 67–69
artist, transformation of, 57–59
artistic whore, 113–19
Athanasius, 75
atheism, 112
atomism, 11
Aufderheide, Patricia, 89
Austen, Jane, 83
autonomy, 11
Babbitt, Milton, 118
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 53, 54, 57, 68, 77, 116
Baker, Houston J., 125
Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 35, 36, 38–39
Barbour, Ian, 73
Barthes, Roland, 15
Basil of Ancyra, 130
Basil the Great, 92
Batteux, Charles, 52–54
Bayless, John, 132
beauty, 26–28, 35–39, 43, 45–47, 62–63, 89–90, 120–21, 123–25, 136
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 55, 57, 58, 67, 94, 123
Belz, Carl, 110
Benson, Bruce Ellis, 11
Berliner, Paul, 45
Bernet, Rudolph, 93
Beuys, Joseph, 53
bias, 107
Biz Markie, 87n38
Bizet, George, 57
black spirituals, 34, 40, 125, 136
Blokland, Frans den Exter, 16
Bloom, Harold, 93
Boal, Augusto, 57
body, 37
Bonaventure, 150
Book of Common Prayer, 30, 139, 140
borrowing, 77
Boulez, Pierre, 83
Bourdieu, Pierre, 40
Brahms, Johannes, 124
Braque, George, 83
Brown, Peter, 130
Brown, William P., 75
Burtt, Ben, 71
call, 19–21, 24, 27–28, 33–47, 50, 91–92, 150–51
call to worship, 141–44
chaos, 74
Chase, Steven, 150–51
Chekhov, Anton, 124
Chrétien, Jean-Louis, 31, 35–40, 43, 91–93, 142, 150–51
Chrysostom, John, 23, 46–47, 106, 129–30
church, and art, 49–51, 61–62, 94–96, 105–13
civilization, 27
Claesz, Pieter, 60
classical music, 122
Clement of Alexandria, 23, 105–6
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 62, 80–81
Collingwood, R. G., 119
Coltrane, John, 124
Communion. See Eucharist
community, 26, 85, 96, 100, 105, 115–17, 127, 129, 144
contemporary Christian music, 97, 107
Cottrill, Emily, 50
Cowley, Malcolm, 79–80
Crane, Hart, 79–80
creation, 11, 35, 36, 39, 72–74, 90–91
creativity, 11–12, 17, 22, 55–56, 88, 89
culture, 27
Cunningham, David, 94n52
da Vinci, Leonardo, 55
Derrida, Jacques, 44, 112, 148
Diotima, 37
discourse, 51–52, 74, 108, 110–11, 112
dissonance, 94
Dix, Dom Gregory, 140
doxology, 141
Drabble, Margaret, 81
dualism, 9
elitism, 118
Elkins, James, 106–11
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 84
Enlightenment, 11
Epictetus, 130
Erasmus, 151
ethics, 36n7, 60–62, 111, 119, 121
Eucharist, 10, 30–31, 95, 141, 152–54
evangelicalism, 7, 9, 10, 138, 140, 145, 152
Evans, Walker, 83
existence, 12, 19, 34, 76, 124, 127
ex nihilo, 11, 12, 19, 26, 58, 72–75, 93
experts, 63–66
Fabian, Richard, 95
fine art, 51, 59, 64, 67, 108, 120
Forkel, Johann Nikolaus, 68
Foucault, Michel, 23, 51–52, 110, 112
Franklin, Benjamin, 17
Frumento, John Lo, 89
Fujimura, Makoto, 109
Fuller, David, 77
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 26, 30–31, 78, 143–44, 147
Gaebelein, Frank E., 43
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 44
Geisel, Theodore (Dr. Seuss), 72
genius, 11, 16, 25, 52–59, 79, 85, 88
Gershwin, Marc, 88
Giuliani, Rudi, 52n5
God
as creator, 21
as improviser, 76
goodness, 35–38, 45–46, 122–23
Górecki, Henryk, 113
Guardini, Romano, 127, 129, 156
Hadot, Pierre, 131–32
Handel, George Frederick, 77
Hawkinson, Tim, 109
Haydn, Joseph, 67
Heidegger, Martin, 91
Henderson, Joe, 44
Henri, Robert, 102, 116, 118–19
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 67–68
Herman, Bruce, 109–10
Herseth, Adolph, 41
heterophony, 94
Hitchcock, Alfred, 55
Hoffmann, E. T. A., 67
Homer, 55
hypersensitivity, 115
icons, 29–30, 95, 96, 126, 135, 142, 148
image of God, 21, 26, 29–30, 90, 91, 128, 130
imitation, 16, 52–54, 84–85, 144
improvisation, 12, 15, 22, 26, 34–35, 39–46, 71–97, 125, 147–48
Ingarden, Roman, 16
innovation, 16, 43, 52, 55, 82, 107
iterability, 148
Jaszi, Peter, 89
jazz, 26, 40–42, 45, 92–93, 122, 125
Jesus Christ
as improviser, 147–48
Jobs, Steve, 17n6
Johnson, Ken, 107
Johnstone, Keith, 42
Jones, Franklin P., 17n7
Joubert, Joseph, 93
Judaism, 49, 51, 100, 102, 105, 131
Justin Martyr, 74, 75, 141, 144, 152–53
Kahn, Jacob, 17, 100–103, 113–14
Kant, Immanuel, 25, 38, 52, 54–56, 58–63, 120, 124
Keaton, Buster, 64
Keller, Catherine, 74–75
Keller, Timothy, 96
Kiefer, Anselm, 109
Lascaux, 27
Lathrop, Gordon, 143
Laurents, Arthur, 58
Led Zeppelin, 84
Lev, Asher, 28–29, 49–50, 100–105, 113–14, 116
Levinas, Emmanuel, 36
Levine, Lawrence W., 64–65, 66n44
Levine, Sherrie, 83
Levinson, Jerrold, 56
Lewis, C. S., 62
liberalism, 38
Linda, Solomon, 84
Lipscomb, A. A., 65
and Eucharist, 30–31
intensive, 135–41
Lord’s Prayer, 120
Lord’s Supper. See Eucharist
lowbrow, 63–66
Lutherans, 139
MacIntyre, Alasdair, 41n22
Mahler, Gustav, 79
Marion, Jean-Luc, 20n2, 29, 30, 31, 134, 142, 154
Marsalis, Wynton, 41
Mass. See Eucharist
Matisse, Henri, 57
Mattheson, Johann, 84–85
May, Gerhard, 73
McCall, Richard D., 135
mercy seat, 23
Messiaen, Olivier, 113
metaphysics, 10
Michelangelo, 55
Middleton, J. Richard, 90
Miles, Sara, 136
Milton, John, 84
minimalism, 9
modernism, 9, 10, 11, 38, 94, 109, 111–14, 120
moralistic therapeutic deism, 11
Moses, 20, 22–23, 34, 40, 143, 151
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 25, 56, 67, 74
Murphy, John P., 44–45
musical instruments, 105–6
Newman, Barnett, 120
Newton, Isaac, 54
Nicene Creed, 149
obedience, 22
Ofili, Chris, 52
order, 23, 36, 38, 75–76, 139–40, 156
originality, 17, 52, 54, 84–85, 89, 107
O’Sullivan, Gilbert, 87n38
Owens, Buddy, 134
Owens, Carol, 97
Owens, Jimmy, 97
Parker, Charlie, 44–45
Parmenides, 74
Pärt, Arvo, 113
participation, 24, 39, 45, 95, 137, 147, 154
passion narratives, 147
Paul, 146
on icon of God, 35
on workmanship, 22
Pavarotti, Luciano, 123
Pentecostals, 145
Pfleger, Michael, 33–34
Philo of Alexandria, 131
philosophy, 7, 28, 61, 111–12, 131, 136
Picasso, Pablo, 16–17, 55, 58, 84, 101, 122
postliberalism, 7
postmodernism, 7–11, 109, 111, 112, 113
Potok, Chaim, 100
pragmatism, 9
prayer, 68, 132, 138–40, 150–52
Prescott, Theodore, 113
Proclus, 37
Pseudo Dionysius, 37–38
Purchas, Samuel, 80
quotation, 85
rationalism, 9, 10, 11, 59–61, 111
reconstruction, 69
relativism, 27, 63, 111n14, 120–23
repetition, 26, 31, 40, 44–45, 85, 138, 140–41, 148
response, 19–21, 40–45, 142, 150
responsibility, 25, 26, 30, 103, 116–20, 147
revelation, 151
reverence, 68–69
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 46
Rochlitz, Friedrich, 56
Rodin, Auguste, 55
Rollins, Tim, 109
Roman Catholics, 7, 96, 138, 139
romanticism, 11, 25, 57, 61, 67, 76, 87–88, 108
Rossini, Gioachini, 55
Samuel, 20
Schjeldahl, Peter, 120
Schleiermacher, Friedrich, 67
Schmemann, Alexander, 127, 137–38, 141, 155
Schostakovich, Dmitry, 124
Seeger, Charles, 83
Serrano, Andres, 52
Seurat, Georges, 99
Seuss, Dr., 72
Shakespeare, William, 16, 55, 64–65
Sharp, Cecil, 86
Siedell, Daniel A., 124–25
Smith, Christian, 11
Smith, James K. A., 24
snobbery, 66
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 36
Stanton, Andrew, 71
Steffler, Alva, 49
Steiner, Wendy, 120
Stone, Irving, 115
Stravinsky, Igor, 82
subjectivity, 11, 62–63, 108, 123
symbolism, 153–54
Tarkovky, Andrei, 124
Taruskin, Richard, 82
Tavener, John, 113
theology, 7, 39, 46, 73–74, 132
Thomas Aquinas, 39
Timrod, Henry, 84
tradition, 23, 24, 41, 56–57, 82, 93, 95
transformation, 44–45, 78, 132, 148
Trinity, 91–92
Truffaut, François, 55
truth, 25–28, 38–39, 45–46, 103, 112, 119, 123, 125–26
Twain, Mark, 65
Van Gogh, Vincent, 53, 59, 115
Von Rad, Gerhard, 73
Wackenroder, Wilhelm Heinrich, 57, 68
Wagner, Richard, 123
WALL-E, 71
Walton, John, 75–76
Warhol, Andy, 109
Weber, Carl Maria von, 57
Wilde, Oscar, 61
Williams, Rowan, 42
Wodehouse, P. G., 122
word, 145–47
workmanship, 22
worship, 9–10, 14, 24, 34, 95–97, 134–36, 139–42, 155–56
Yancey, Philip, 152