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  Index

  Adam, 43, 50–51, 56, 107–8

  Alcuin of York, 24

  Alexander, Christopher, 32, 104

  Alfred, King, 24, 39

  Aquinas, St. Thomas, 26–27, 41, 75, 103–4

  Arabi, Muhyiddin Ibn, 75

  architecture, 20, 39, 90, 93, 97, 99–104, 116, 119n45

  Aristotle, 21, 25–26, 42, 57–58, 137

  arithmetic, 22–24, 53, 71, 78, 92n5, 94. See also mathematics; number

  Assisi, St. Francis of, 106–7, 142

  astronomy, 22–24, 53, 71, 90, 94, 110, 116–17

  Augustine, St., 12–14, 22, 75

  Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 33–34, 37, 47, 125, 136n3

  Barfield, Owen, 41, 43, 46

  Baroque, 104

  Barr, Stephen M., 71, 119

  Barron, Robert, 121, 123

  Basho, 46

  Basil the Great, 15

  beauty, 14–17, 28–29, 31–35, 39–40, 42, 45, 48, 55, 69–71, 90, 92, 98, 103, 105, 113, 115–16, 119, 125–26, 132–33, 140, 144

  Beethoven, Ludwig von, 67

  Begbie, Jeremy, 96n10, 117

  Benedict, St., 38–39

  Benedict XVI, 13, 26, 30, 62, 102, 123n3, 132, 141

  Bloom, Allan, 31

  body, 35, 48n17, 50n19, 57, 69–70, 75, 94, 97–98, 104, 107, 141–42

  Boethius, 12, 22, 103

  Bohm, David, 32, 122

  Bohr, Neils, 54n2, 122

  Bonaventure, 27, 29n23, 41n6, 142

  Borella, Jean, 142

  Bouyer, Louis, 26n15, 77

  Brahe, Tycho, 112

  Buber, Martin, 45

  Bulgakov, Sergei, 78