Incomprehensible Certainty

Thomas Pfau is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English at Duke University, with a secondary appointment on the Duke Divinity School faculty. He is the author, editor, and translator of twelve books, including Minding the Modern: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013, 2015).

Acknowledgments
List of Images & Permissions
Abbreviations
Introduction: Writing the Image: Reading - Reflection - Argument
PART I - Image-Theory as Metaphysics and Theology: the Emergence of a Tradition
1. A Brief Metaphysics of the Image: Plato - Plotinus
2. Theology and Phenomenology of the Byzantine Icon
3. The Eschatological Image: Augustine - Bonaventure - Julian of Norwich
4. The Speculative Image: Platonism and Mysticism in Nicholas of Cusa
PART II - The Image in the Era of Naturalism and the Persistence of Metaphysics
5. The Symbolic Image: Visualizing the Metamorphosis of Being in Goethe
6. The Forensic Image: Paradoxes of Realism in Lyell, Darwin, and Ruskin
7. The Sacramental Image: G. M. Hopkins
8. The Epiphanic Image: Husserl - Cézanne - Rilke
Epilogue & Conclusions