Both works relate to musical themes and have an extreme horizontal dimension. (brooklynrail.org)
The author uses the image of a cross — the «vertical and horizontal dimensions of Communion» — to lead into the Lord's Prayer and to show this intimate prayer incarnated in the Sign of Peace with one's neighbour. (faith.org.uk)
As John Paul II put it in Redemptoris Missio, «In our heavily secularised world a «gradual secularisation of salvation» has taken place, so that people strive for the good of man, but man who is truncated, reduced to his merely horizontal dimension.» (faith.org.uk)