Ayasofya: Writings On Nature and Religion features a selection of concise meditations and short essays, with a host of psalmist-style prose poems and one eponymous hymn. Thus this book is all at once supposed to deepen and to expand upon and to illuminate, the ancient mysterious and religiously archetypal figure, of Sophia, or Holy Wisdom. Ayasofya is a sustained exploration of this numinous figure and of her livingly gracious presence.