The primary argument in the early chapters of this book was that the classical world-view combined thought, faith and the imagination in ways that allowed human beings, as the creatures of God, to be at home in a world that was created and thus, by its very nature, ordered to the divine Creator. It was the collapse of this synthesis which led to the particular conditions of the modern intellectual world, with its characteristic emphasis upon the instrumentality of reason, rather than what we might call its cosmic commitments. The purpose of the book as a whole has been to give content to the createdness of the world by developing cosmic imagery that is already present in scriptural traditions.