This volume is a collection of essays that explains how literature, philosophy and theology have explored the role of wonder in our lives, particularly through poetry.

Introduction: Why Wonder? Francesca Bugliani Knox Part I: Philosophical Perspectives; 'In the Valley of the Lot', Hilary Davies 1 The Wonder of Not Wondering: from Plato to Lucretius, Guido Milanese 2 Wonder and the Philosopher's Perfection: Giordano Bruno, Dilwyn Knox 3 Wonder, Epiphany, Haecceity in Gerard Manley Hopkins, Richard Kearney 4 Wonder in Ethics and Aesthetics: Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore, Priyambada Sarkar 5 A Mysticism of a Dead Leaf: A Brief Apology for an Ordinary Phenomenon, Philippe Nouzille Part II: Theological Perspectives; 'The Litany', Dana Gioia 6 The Extraordinary of the Ordinary: G.K. Chesterton, Imagination and the Wonder of a Natural Theology, Brett H. Speakman 7 Between Rapture and Rupture: An Exploration of Wonder, Bernard Sawicki OSB 8 Between the Poet and the Legislator: On Wonder and Ambivalence in Midrash and Hebrew Poetry, Ariel Zinder 9 Scandalous Wonder: Contemplating the Cross with Isaac Watts, Jean Ward 10 This World of Wonders: Theology, Poetics and Everyday Life, Heather Walton Part III: Literary Perspectives; 'Creed', Jay Parini 11 Wonder and the Power of the Word, Piero Boitani 12 Wonder and the Radical Vision of Francis of Assisi, Jon M. Sweeney 13 Rilke's Poetics of Wonder: Looking at the Picture-Books of Beauty in the Duino Elegies, Emilia Di Rocco 14 Poetry, Radicalism and Wonder: Peter Levi, Priesthood, and David Jones, Robert Fraser 15 'The flowers remember / the sugar bowl remembers': Quotidian Wonder and the Painter/Poet Joanna Margaret Paul, Joanna Osborne Afterword; 'A Space for God', Elena Buia Rutt 16 'Learn from wonder, nurture astonishment': Notes on Bergoglio's Aesthetics, Antonio Spadaro SJ and Francesca Bugliani Knox