Vestige of Eden, Image of Eternity: Common Experience, the Hierarchy of Being, and Modern Science

Three great cosmological worldviews—of the Latin West, ancient Greece, and the Hebrew/Syriac world—arose from a union of ancient and medieval thought. Each had origins in the ancient world and reached a synthesis under scholastic medieval thinkers. This synthesis was incorporated into Catholic tradition, becoming identified as a cosmological worldview of the Catholic Church. This worldview maintains a correspondence to and connection between the structure of the universe and the divine plan...