Originally published: New York : Crossroad, 1984.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [330]-336).

Concerning the spiritual in art / Wassily Kandinsky -- Craft : making and being / Cecilia Davis Cunningham -- The art of deception / Karen Laub-Novak -- Reflections on art and the spirit : a conversation / Stephen de Staebler and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- The seven functions of the hands of Christ : aspects of Leonardo's Last supper / Leo Steinberg -- In alia Effigie : Caravaggio's London Supper at Emmaus / Charles Scribner III -- The nationalist garden and the Holy Book / Barbara Novak -- The religious impulse in American art / Joshua C. Taylor -- George Segal's Abraham and Isaac : some iconographic reflections / Jane Dillenberger -- The origin and use of images in India / Ananda K. Coomaraswamy -- Foundations for a religio-aesthetic tradition in Japan / Richard B. Pilgrim -- Judaism and art / David Altshuler and Linda Altshuler -- An islamic perspective on symbolism in the arts : new thoughts on figural representation / Lois Isben Al Faruqi -- The sacred and the modern artist / Mircea Eliade -- Can art fill the vacuum? / Langdon B. Gilkey -- Artists and church commissions : Rubin's The church at Assy revisited / John Dillenberger -- The aesthetic dimension in theology / Thomas Franklin O'Meara -- Art and ultimate reality / Paul Tillich -- The religious classic and the classic of art / David Tracy -- Question : when is religion art? answer : when it is a jar / T.R. Martland -- Art, religion, and the elite : reflections on a passage from André Malraux / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Painting as theological thought : the issues in Tuscan theology / John W. Dixon, Jr. -- Theological reflections on an image of woman : Picasso's Girl before a mirror / Melinda Wortz -- Berdyaev and Rothko : transformative visions / Roger Wedell -- Theological expressions through visual art forms / Doug Adams -- Sources for the study of Christianity and the arts / John W. Cook.

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