reveal God’s power and wisdom.1 As early as the third century, the Christian monastic Anthony the Abbot referred to “created nature” as a “book,” one always at his “disposal” whenever he wanted “to read God’s words.”2 Another early church father, Basil the Great, similarly argued, “We were made in the image and likeness of our Creator, endowed with intellect and reason, so that our nature was complete and we could know God. In this way, continuously contemplating the beauty of creatures, through them as if they were letters and words, we could read God’s wisdom and providence over all
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