Bibliogr. p.[271]-286.

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 naïveté / Sander von Maas -- Olivier Messiaen and Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger : Two views of the liturgical reform according to the second vatican council / Karin Heller -- Messiaen's relationship to Jacques Maritain's musical circle and neo-thomism / Douglas Shadle -- Messiaen and Aquinas / Vincent P. Benitez -- 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 -- 'Une œuvre simple, solennelle...' : Messiaen's commission from André Malraux / Nigel Simeone -- Olivier Messiaen and the avant-garde poetics of the Messe de la Pentecôte / Robert Sholl -- Messiaen as explorer in Livre du Saint Sacrement / Luke Berryman -- Buddhist temple, Shinto Shrine and the invisible god of Sept Haïkaï / Cheong Wai Ling.