Table of Contents
Introduction 13
Introduction to the Moody Edition 17
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 Chartres Cathedral, unknown (cathedral, 1134) 31
5 Ordo Virtutum, Hildegard of Bingen (choral work, c. 1151) 36
6 The Windows of Sainte-Chapelle, unknown (stained glass, 1248) 40
7 The Scrovegni Chapel Frescoes, Giotto (paintings, c. 1305) 44
8 The Divine Comedy, Dante (poem, c.1320) 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, 1508-1512) 69
14 "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," Martin Luther (hymn, c. 1529) 74
15 The Procession to Calvary, Pieter Bruegel (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, 1601-1602) 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. 1635-1640) 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 Passion, Johann Sebastian Bach (oratorio, 1727) 122
26 Messiah-George Frideric Handel (oratorio, 1741) 126
27 "Amazing Grace," John Newton (hymn, 1779) 130
28 Songs of Innocence and Experience, William Blake (poems, 1789-1794) 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) 148
32 Symphony no. 5, The Reformation, Felix Mendelssohn (classical music, 1830) 153
33 The Voyage of Life, Thomas Cole (paintings, 1842) 157
34 The Light of the World, William Holman Hunt (painting, 1854) 163
35 The Heart of the Andes, Frederic Edwin Church (painting, 1859) 168
36 Fairy Tales, George MacDonald (stories, c. 1871) 173
37 The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novel, 1879) 178
38 La Sagrada Família Cathedral, Antoni Gaudí (cathedral, begun 1882) 182
39 Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh (painting, 1889) 187
40 The Complete Poems, Emily Dickinson (poems, 1890) 193
41 The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, James Tissot (paintings, 1896) 198
42 The Annunciation, Henry Ossawa Tanner (painting, 1898) 202
43 The Innocence of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton (short stories, 1911) 207
44 The Life of Christ, Emil Nolde (paintings, 1912) 212
45 Poems, Gerard Manley Hopkins (poems, 1918) 217
46 The Resurrection at Cookham, Stanley Spencer (painting, 1926) 221
47 Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather (novel, 1927) 226
48 The Passion of Joan of Arc, Carl Theodore Dreyer (film, 1928) 230
49 Head of Christ, Georges Rouault (painting, 1937) 234
50 The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene (novel, 1940) 239
51 Quartet for the End of Time, Olivier Messiaen (classical music, 1941) 243
52 Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot (poems, 1943) 248
53 The Man Born to Be King, Dorothy L. Sayers (drama, 1943) 253
54 Rome, Open City, Roberto Rossellini (film, 1945) 258
55 It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra (film, 1946) 263
56 "I Will Move On Up a Little Higher," Mahalia Jackson (recording, 1947) 267
57 The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis (children's stories, 1950-1956) 272
58 The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (novels, 1954-1955) 277
59 A Love Supreme, John Coltrane (recording, 1964) 281
60 Au Hasard du Balthasar, Robert Bresson (film, 1966) 285
61 Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky (film, 1966) 290
62 Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (novel, 1967) 295
63 At Folsom Prison, Johnny Cash (recording, 1968) 300
64 The Complete Stories, Flannery O'Connor (short stories, 1971) 305
65 Only Visiting This Planet, Larry Norman (recording, 1972) 309
66 Symphony no. 3, The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Henryk Górecki (classical music, 1976) 314
67 Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws, Bruce Cockburn (recording, 1979) 318
68 The Second Coming, Walker Percy (novel, 1980) 323
69 The Last Supper, Sadao Watanabe (print, 1981) 328
70 Godric, Frederick Buechner (novel, 1981) 333
71 Infidels, Bob Dylan (recording, 1983) 337
72 The Joshua Tree, U2 (recording, 1987) 342
73 Paradise Garden, Howard Finster (artistic assemblage, c. 1990) 347
74 The Four Holy Gospels, Makoto Fujimura (paintings, 2011) 351
75 The Tree of Life, Terrence Malick (film, 2011) 356
Acknowledgments 361
Notes 363
For Further Exploration: A Selected Bibliography 371