David J. Davis is Associate Professor of History at Houston Baptist University. He specializes in early modern religious culture and intellectual history, and his publications include two books on early modern religious images as well as numerous articles, chapters, and essays on the English Reformation and the history of the book in Britain. He teaches courses in European history in the History Department at HBU and is a faculty member in the Honours College.

Poetry and illustrations - abundant in this book - offer a valuable gauge for considering how people imagined the divine and divine communication, that is, not in opposition to the new challenging discoveries in science or mathematics, but rather as integrating them into a new whole.

• Introduction: The Culture of Divine Revelation Part I: The Discourse of Experiencing God 1: 'The entrance to my joys' 2: 'Wee should bee rapt vp into the third heauen' 3: 'Pictures are ... not for Worship' Part II: Raptus as Prayer and Poetry 4: 'A love-token of Christ to the Soul' 5: 'Language of Angels' Part III: Challenges to the Culture of Divine Revelation 6: 'So unsatisfying ... is Rapture' 7: 'The foundation of all Knowledge' Conclusion

David J. Davis is Associate Professor of History at Houston Baptist University. He specializes in early modern religious culture and intellectual history, and his publications include two books on early modern religious images as well as numerous articles, chapters, and essays on the English Reformation and the history of the book in Britain. He teaches courses in European history in the History Department at HBU and is a faculty member in the Honours College.

Poetry and illustrations - abundant in this book - offer a valuable gauge for considering how people imagined the divine and divine communication, that is, not in opposition to the new challenging discoveries in science or mathematics, but rather as integrating them into a new whole.

• Introduction: The Culture of Divine Revelation Part I: The Discourse of Experiencing God 1: 'The entrance to my joys' 2: 'Wee should bee rapt vp into the third heauen' 3: 'Pictures are ... not for Worship' Part II: Raptus as Prayer and Poetry 4: 'A love-token of Christ to the Soul' 5: 'Language of Angels' Part III: Challenges to the Culture of Divine Revelation 6: 'So unsatisfying ... is Rapture' 7: 'The foundation of all Knowledge' Conclusion

David J. Davis is Associate Professor of History at Houston Baptist University. He specializes in early modern religious culture and intellectual history, and his publications include two books on early modern religious images as well as numerous articles, chapters, and essays on the English Reformation and the history of the book in Britain. He teaches courses in European history in the History Department at HBU and is a faculty member in the Honours College.

Poetry and illustrations - abundant in this book - offer a valuable gauge for considering how people imagined the divine and divine communication, that is, not in opposition to the new challenging discoveries in science or mathematics, but rather as integrating them into a new whole.

• Introduction: The Culture of Divine Revelation Part I: The Discourse of Experiencing God 1: 'The entrance to my joys' 2: 'Wee should bee rapt vp into the third heauen' 3: 'Pictures are ... not for Worship' Part II: Raptus as Prayer and Poetry 4: 'A love-token of Christ to the Soul' 5: 'Language of Angels' Part III: Challenges to the Culture of Divine Revelation 6: 'So unsatisfying ... is Rapture' 7: 'The foundation of all Knowledge' Conclusion