This leads to the more serious set of problems with Steiner's analysis. As Calvin insisted, such a God is a creation of the human mind, and therefore an idol. In this scheme, human symbols replace God's symbols as the signs and seals of His presence. Steiner's argument can, in part, be co-opted by the Christian. Steiner's claim that artistic creation mimics the original creation is a sound insight, and basic to any Christian aesthetic theory.
Several considerations seem to be paramount.
It is not obvious, first of all, that an encounter with art is different in kind from an encounter with the creation. The reason we feel awe when we look at the starlit sky is because the Awesome Creator is revealed there. Art, literature, and music have a particular power to awaken awe because the artist or musician has distilled and concentrated God's revelation in creation and history. Having said that, the Christian is free to admit that there is a mysterious quality to art, as there is to the whole creation. The artist's creation as well as the artist himself reveals God.