| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Preface | p. 1 |
| Pied Beauty | p. 7 |
| Introduction | p. 7 |
| What Is Theological Aesthetics? | p. 9 |
| Glory and Praise | p. 12 |
| Nature and Plow | p. 16 |
| Dawn's Dappling Light | p. 20 |
| Fresh-Firecoal Chestnut Falls | p. 26 |
| Skies of Couple-Colour | p. 34 |
| Wrapping Up | p. 37 |
| A Different Beauty | p. 39 |
| "Difference" | p. 41 |
| A New Faith Seeking Understanding | p. 44 |
| An Unfortunate Rpression | p. 49 |
| Medellin | p. 50 |
| Popular Catholicism | p. 52 |
| Hispanic Theology and Aesthetics | p. 54 |
| Seeing the Form | p. 63 |
| From a Philosophical to a Theological Aesthetics | p. 65 |
| Albertus and Sophia: A Dialogue | p. 65 |
| The Two Poles of Philosophical Aesthetics | p. 69 |
| The Decisive Difference: The Incarnation | p. 73 |
| The Capax Dei | p. 74 |
| The First Dimension of the Capax Dei: Intrinsic Grace | p. 77 |
| The Second Dimension of the Capax Dei: The Analogy of Being | p. 78 |
| The Third Dimension of the Capax Dei: The Word Became Flesh | p. 82 |
| The Fourth Dimension of the Capax Dei: "Seeing the Form" | p. 86 |
| From Form to Sign | p. 90 |
| The Community of the True | p. 91 |
| Charles Sanders Peirce | p. 96 |
| A Different Razor | p. 97 |
| The Logic of Signs | p. 103 |
| Peirce's Aesthetics | p. 113 |
| Aesthetics: A Normative Science | p. 114 |
| The Community of the Good | p. 119 |
| From the True to the Good | p. 122 |
| Between Fact and Idea | p. 124 |
| The First Conception of Being | p. 126 |
| The Second Conception of Being | p. 127 |
| The Third Conception of Being | p. 128 |
| The Key to Truth | p. 129 |
| The Fourth Conception of Being | p. 130 |
| A New Direction | p. 132 |
| The Community of Interpretation | p. 133 |
| Interpreting Signs in the Garden of Good and Evil | p. 134 |
| The Knowledge of Good and Evil | p. 135 |
| Crossing the Boundary | p. 136 |
| Loyalty | p. 138 |
| The Community of the Good | p. 142 |
| Royce's Hidden Aesthetics | p. 143 |
| A Living Logic | p. 146 |
| The Aesthetics of Negation | p. 150 |
| The Community of the Beautiful | p. 155 |
| An Aesthetic Conception of Being | p. 158 |
| The Poetry of Being | p. 164 |
| Semiotic Aesthetics | p. 165 |
| Being as Foregrounding | p. 168 |
| A Third Type of Knowing | p. 170 |
| The Spiritual Senses | p. 171 |
| What Moves the Heart? | p. 174 |
| The Yetzer | p. 175 |
| From the Old to the New Testament | p. 178 |
| Mary's Song | p. 181 |
| The Anagogical Imagination | p. 182 |
| Lifting Up the Lowly | p. 187 |
| Mary of Guadalupe and the Mary of Faith | p. 192 |
| Sophia and Beatrice | p. 192 |
| Bibliography | p. 197 |
| Index | p. 208 |
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