For him, the creation is God's mission. So, too, the artist. In the third chapter, he explored the concept of the Imago Dei as the theme of creativity, and in this thought, he grounds the search for the sacred in music. No one is devoid of the Imago Dei. That is what God endows every soul.
Every person is to live bountifully, which is to say, creatively.
It is used to describe music in which independent melodic lines are combined so as to affirm their dependence on one another. This process of directional balance is a type of musical argument in which 'note against note' produces conversation between the horizontal and vertical aspects of music. Presumably, this invites the congregation to share in the dialectical nature of Christian nurture. The curious reader will find the book very much worthwhile, instructive, and perhaps also inspirational. The Reverend Paul T. Dahlstrom is the author of Worshiping Present and Future Hope and a collection of poetry, Love Has A Thousand Ways.