The Wikipedia article on Slow Train Coming also states (with no footnotes), in apparent violation of their NPOV (neutral point of view) policy:  "In a year when Van Morrison and Patti Smith released their own spiritual works in Into the Music and Wave, respectively, [Bob] Dylan's album seemed vitriolic and bitter in comparison."  Neither album is particularly Christian, from what I can tell; the title track of the Patti Smith album "Wave" is dedicated to the nearly forgotten Pope John Paul I, but evidently only because it was recorded during his brief papacy. . 

(August 2014)