A leading philosopher and theologian, Jean-Louis Chr+¬tien uses poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response. For Chr+¬tien, we live by responding to the call of experience with words, gestures, expressions, and silence. In luminous meditations on Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine, Keats, and other artists, Chr+¬tien shows how GÇ£talking hands of paintersGÇ¥ and the GÇ£secretly lucidGÇ¥ voices of poets confront the finitude of the human body. Hand to Hand is a deeply cultured renewal of art in all its provocative, transforming, spiritual presence.