Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: “To Sing with the Universe” 1. The Tradition of the Four Ways The Great Tradition Adapting the Medieval Model Beauty for Truth’s Sake Beauty on the Cross 2. Educating the Poetic Imagination “A Beauty which Defies Time” Rediscovering Poetic Knowledge The Symbolic Cosmos A Key to Ancient Mysteries 3. The Lost Wisdom of the World Sacred Number Beyond Pythagoras Irrational Beauty Phi and the Natural Numbers Symmetry 4. The Golden Circle A Journey into God Theology of the Trinity In Search of the Logos Geometry as Prophecy The Golden Circle 5. “Quiring to the Young-Eyed Cherubims” Good Vibrations Humane Architecture At Home in the Cosmos Secrets of the Sky The End of the Road 6. The Liturgical Consummation of Cosmology The Construction of Modernity A Sense of the Sacred Liturgy as Remembering to Give An Education in Beauty The Holy City Bibliography Index A Further Review |