Katherine Calloway is Assistant Professor of English at Baylor University. She has written extensively on early modern English literature as it intersects with science and theology. Her first book, Natural Theology in the Scientific Revolution, was published in 2014.

• Introduction; Part I. Metaphysical Poets: 1. A 'Metaphorical God' and the Book of Nature: John Donne on Natural theology; 2. 'I Summon'd Nature': George Herbert and Henry Vaughan on science and nature; 3. 'Mutters of Assent' or 'Lectures for the Eye': Natural theology in the devotional lyrics of Herbert and Vaughan; Part II. Imagined Worlds: 4. 'Architect of Wonders': Creation in Cavendish, Sylvester, Hutchinson, Denham and Marvell; 5. 'His Footstep Trace': the natural theology of Paradise Lost; 6. The misunderstood spider: John Bunyan reads the Book of Nature; Epilogue: Literature and natural theology at the dawn of the Boyle Lectures.

'With erudition lightly worn and engagingly conveyed, this book traces the development of natural theology across the seventeenth century from Bacon to Donne to Cavendish and to Milton, Bunyan, and the Boyle Lectures. Its fusion of intellectual history and literary criticism will delight scholars of this period along with those approaching it afresh. The book of nature that Calloway opens up is richly interwoven with compelling thought and beautiful poetry.' Dennis Danielson, Professor Emeritus of English, University of British Columbia