Since Antiquity, theologians, philosophers, and scientists have often compared nature to a book that might, under the right circumstances, be read and interpreted to reveal the Author of nature, God.
From a July-August 1990 conference near The Hague, Netherlands, 17 papers present a variety of views on early-modern European challenges to the accepted framework for thinking about God and religion a
How the West Was Won contains articles in three main areas of the humanities. It focuses on various aspects of literary imagination, with essays ranging from Petrarch to Voltaire; on the canon, with e