ixList of Illustrations
I.1: Durham Cathedral has stood for over 900 years,
‘half church of God, half castle ’gainst the Scot’,
as Sir Walter Scott put it. 7
I.2: T.H. Huxley coined the word agnosticism, and it’s
one that has stuck for describing a mid-position
between the certainties of atheism and theism. 14
1.1: The ruins of Delphi, high on the slopes of the
‘Shining Cliffs’. 21
1.2: Socrates’ ugly appearance accentuated the inner
beauty of his unsettling wisdom. 42
2.1: Sir Isaac Newton – gentleman, sage, rationalist or
alchemist? 50
2.2: Cosmologists have always been humbled by
the vastness of the universe they study. 60
2.3: The ‘burnished and resplendent’ fly, as drawn by
Robert Hooke, in 1667. 76
3.1: The Parthenon has made the wonder of technology
manifest for 2500 years. 87
3.2: Aristotle, who articulated a way of thinking about
how to live known as virtue ethics. 102
4.1: Carl Gustav Jung wrote of the spiritual crisis
of modern people. 112
4.2: Buddha as depicted at Kamakura, Japan. 124
5.1: St Dominic, depicted by Fra Angelico, from the
period in which the practice of prayer and the
exercise of reason were indistinguishable. 148
5.2: Apophatic religion was a life-long search.
Fundamentalist religion is stick-on statement. 157