They were, in many ways, heirs of Bonaventure, the thirteenth-century Franciscan who found “vestiges” or “traces” of the Holy Trinity in buttes, butterflies, and buzzards everywhere. Nature points us through the “vestiges” of these concrete mysteries, he said, to the deeper “image” of God in our own created being—our human capacity for rational consciousness—and beyond even that to the “likeness” of God that we discover through the indwelling Christ.
