Fr. Dominic White is a Catholic priest of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans). He is a campus minister at Newcastle University and Northumbria University and arts outreach officer for St. Dominic’s Church. Fr. Dominic is the composer and founder of the Cosmos dance project, patron of Eliot Smith Dance Company, and a senior member of Hatfield College, University of Durham.

• ContentsAcknowledgments   ix1. The Story That Wouldn’t Die   12. Contemporary Spiritualities: Old or New?   83. What Wisdom Knew   304. The Cosmic Cross   505. The Heavenly Journey   676. The Law of Music   917. Dancing with Angels   1088. Overcoming the Stars   1289. Wisdom’s Liturgy   14810. The Age of Revelation   167Appendix: The Lost Knowledge of Christ and the Enneagram   189Notes   193Index   208

"So much of Christianity has been deprived of its context. Fr. Dominic White reconstructs this "Lost Knowledge"—the original cosmology—by leading us from lesser-known writings of the early Christians to the art, customs, and liturgy of later times. These are more familiar but now not fully understood because they too have lost their context. In this book we meet a brilliant mind, a warm heart, and a gentle humor that open up the somehow familiar world of our ancient cosmology and shed new (or old?) light on current disputes and concerns in the church."Dr. Margaret Barker, Author of Temple Themes in Christian Worship