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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; List of Images; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 A Double-Consciousness ; A False Choice; Postwar America; High or Low; Secular or Sacred; Aesthetes or Disciples; 2 The Body They May Kill ; Ideal Form; Modernism's Body; The Sexed Body; Broken Bodies; Tents and Temples; A Sacred Vessel; Art -- Color Insert -- Plates I-V; 3 Secular Sirens ; An Evangelical Taxonomy of the Senses; An Allegory of Passion; The Sensate Life; Born of Weakness; Pleasure Redeemed; 4 Be Careful Little Eyes What You See ; Calves and Serpents; Three Controversies

Evangelical IconsObjects of Devotion; Seeing the Unseen; 5 A People of the Book and the Image ; The Precincts of Word and Image; The Modern Contest; Reading-It's Not What It Used to Be; A Book for the People; The Word Made Flesh; 6 A Semblance of a Whole ; Crisis; Lettrism; Deconstruction; Confronting Babel; Annunciation; 7 The Music of the Spheres ; Finding Beauty; Beauty's Bloodied Nose; Reviving Beauty; Signs of Glory; 8 An Aesthetic Pilgrimage ; A Glimmer of Light; The Culture Problem; Called by God; The Artist's Vocation; The Hope of the New; Bibliography ; Image Credits ; Author Index

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