Introduction: Why Byzantium?.- Part One. From Creation to Creator.- Chapter 1. Strange Beauty: Environmental Aesthetics After Humanism.- Chapter 2. Hidden Patency: On the Iconic Character of Human Life.- Chapter 3. The Challenge of Secularism to Philosophical Ethics.- Chapter 4. Reflections on Faith and Science.- Part Two. Nature and the Holy.- Chapter 5. Toward the Mystery.- Chapter 6. Saving Sophia: Notes Toward an Orthodox Philosophy of Nature.- Chapter 7. Nature and Divine Wisdom: How (Not) to Speak of Sophia.- Chapter 8. Discerning the Spirit in Creation: Orthodox Christianity and Environmental Science.- Chapter 9. The Truth of Nature: Environmental Theology and the Epistemology of Asceticism.- Part Three. Byzantine Essays.- Chapter 10. As We Also Forgive: Asceticism and Forgiveness in the Lord's Prayer, According to St. Maximos the Confessor.- Chapter 11. Being as Communion: On the Ontology of Love in the Byzantine Tradition.- Chapter 12. TÔ HETERON: The Problem of Otherness in Western Philosophy and Christian Theology.- Chapter 13. The Prayer of the Heart and the Heart of Prayer: On the Eastern Orthodox Practice of Prayer.- Part Four. Byzantine Thought and Modern Culture.- Chapter 14. Representation of the Divine in the Christian East.- Chapter 15. Heresy and Iconography: Reflections on Carolingian Aesthetics and Its Modern Successors.- Chapter 16. From Fichte to Florensky: The Transformation of German Idealism within Russian Philosophy.- Chapter 17. The Fluttering of Autumn Leaves: Logic, Mathematics, and Metaphysics in Florensky's The Pillar and Ground of the Truth.- Part Five. Higher Education and Western Culture.- Chapter 18. One Dimensional Learning: The Dialectic of Sacred and Secular as the Enduring Possibility of the University.- Chapter 19. Approaches to Teaching a Great Books Core at an Orthodox College.