| Acknowledgements | 7 |
| Introduction | 11 |
| Basic Modalities and Methods | |
| Basic Presuppositions and Predilections | |
| Musical Predilections | |
| Religious Predilections | |
| Culture and Language | |
| Analysis and Practice | |
| I. | Sacramental Traditions | 25 |
| Sacramental Encounter | |
| Divine Eminence and Divine Immanence | |
| Two Sacramental Traditions | |
| The Pythagorean Tradition | |
| The Incarnational Tradition | |
| II. | Creation: Transcending Contingency | 49 |
| The Pythagorean Tradition: Music's Sacramental Silence | |
| Pythagorean Intervals | |
| The Overtone Series | |
| Division of the Diapason | |
| Melody and Harmony | |
| Musical Particularity and Universality | |
| Religious Particularity and Universality | |
| Beyond Contingency: Trusting Divine Logos | |
| Music, Mathematics, and Transcendence | |
| III. | Creation: Manifesting Transcendence | 91 |
| The Incarnational Tradition: Music's Sacramental Sound | |
| On Balancing the Pythagorean and Incarnational Traditions | |
| Emotion and Meaning | |
| Divine Artistry and Human Artistry | |
| Mozart and Deconstruction | |
| Mozart and Transcendence | |
| Creativity as Covenant | |
| IV. | Fall: Enduring Time | 125 |
| From Harmony to Babel | |
| Christian Ambivalence toward Music | |
| Time's Terrible Beauty | |
| Music's Dark Resources | |
| Tonal Tension | |
| Dissonance | |
| Interference | |
| Minor Modes | |
| Music as Virtual Life | |
| Music and Silence | |
| Music and Noise | |
| Music and Chaos | |
| Music and Life's Pilgrimage | |
| Sacred Music: Evaluation and Taste | |
| Music and Theodicy | |
| V. | Salvation: Sustaining Harmony | 159 |
| Can Beauty Save Us? | |
| Music and Goodness | |
| Music and Truth | |
| Music and Beauty | |
| Idol, Distraction, Offering, or Grace? | |
| Music's Power to Heal and to Harm | |
| Cosmic Harmony | |
| Harmony: Individual and Social | |
| Social Sharing and Immediate Experience | |
| Temperament: Musical and Communal | |
| VI. | Final Bliss: Surpassing Language | 199 |
| Hope for Harmony | |
| Varieties of Mystical Experience | |
| Outwardly and Inwardly Oriented Mysticisms | |
| Meanings of Transcendence | |
| Communion with Transcendence | |
| Mysticisms of Knowledge and of Love | |
| Musical Illustrations | |
| Beyond Verbal Language | |
| Music and Transcendence | |
| Intimacy | |
| Penetration | |
| Fulfilment | |
| Silence or Succour? | |
| Music and the Numinous | |
| A Sacramental Vessel | |
| Quieting | |
| Preparing | |
| Abasing | |
| Attracting | |
| Constituting | |
| Proclaiming | |
| Celebrating | |
| Music and Final Bliss | |
| Codetta | 233 |
| Notes and References | 235 |
| Index of Biblical Passages | 247 |
| General Index | 249 |
