Messiaen the Theologian
- Editor: Shenton, Andrew
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Contents
- Contents: Introducing Messiaen the theologian, Andrew Shenton
- Part 1 Messiaen the Theologian: Religious literature in Messiaen's personal library, Yves Balmer
- Messiaen as preacher and evangelist in the context of European modernism, Peter Bannister
- Messiaen's saintly naA-vete, Sander van Maas. Part 2 Messiaen's Relationship with Theologians: Olivier Messiaen and Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger: 2 views of the liturgical reform according to the 2nd Vatican Council, Karin Heller
- Messiaen's relationship to Jacques Maritain's musical circle and neo-Thomism, Douglas Shadle
- Messiaen and Aquinas, Vincent P. Benitez. Part 3 Messiaen, Poets and Theological Themes: Dante as guide to Messiaen's Gothic spirituality, Robert Fallon
- Five quartets: the search for the still point of the turning world in the war quartets of T.S. Eliot and Olivier Messiaen, Andrew Shenton
- The charm of impossibilities: mystic surrealism as contemplative voluptuousness, Stephen Schloesser. Part 4 Theology in Messiaen's Music: 'Une A"uvre simple, solonnelle...': Messiaen's commission from Andre Malraux, Nigel Simeone
- Olivier Messiaen and the avant-garde poetics of the Mess de la PentecAte, Robert Sholl
- Messiaen as explorer in Livre du Saint Sacrement, Luke Berryman
- Buddhist temple, Shinto shrine and the invisible God of Sept HaA-kaA-, Cheong Wai Ling
- Glossary of people
- Select bibliography
- Index.