Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction The cosmological imperative -- I An archaeology of createdness -- 1 The architecture of createdness -- Heaven in the heavens -- Heaven on earth -- Music -- Architecture -- Cosmic phenomenology -- 2 The metaphysics of createdness -- Transcendentals and reason -- Thomas Aquinas -- Bonaventure -- Semiotics -- Origen -- Augustine -- Conclusion -- 3 Cosmological fragments -- Fragmentation -- Copernicus and astronomy -- Bacon and natural science -- Cosmological transformations -- Winckelmann and art -- Jacobi and reason -- Hamann and language -- Conclusion -- II Scriptural cosmology -- 4 Speech revealed -- Mosaic dialogues -- Trinitarian speech -- Father and Son -- Spirit -- Conclusion -- 5 Spirit and Letter -- The model of the text -- What is a text? -- Writing and voice -- Voice and writing -- The divine text -- Sign and address -- Spirit -- Word -- Conclusion -- 6 Voice and sacrifice -- Inhabiting the Text -- Christology -- 'I am He' -- 'This is my body' -- Eucharist -- Multivocal speech -- Real presence -- Conclusion -- III Eucharistic Wisdom -- 7 The abundant real -- Realism and Eucharistic semiotics -- The sign fulfilled -- A Christian philosophy of the real -- Intensities of the real -- Sense-life -- Praying the end -- Art -- Conclusion -- 8 Wisdom of the flesh -- The human body and the Primal Text -- Voice, text and body -- Eucharistic flesh -- The compassionate body -- The dancing body -- The eschatological body -- Conclusion -- 9 Eucharistic reasoning -- Historical reason -- The rationalist spirit -- The romantic sublime -- Transfiguration and reason -- Theoretical reasoning -- Practical reasoning -- Ethical choices: a case study -- Conclusion -- Conclusion Cosmology and the theological imagination -- Select bibliography.

Index of biblical citations -- General index.