Thinking God's Thoughts

<p><strong>Why is the cosmos intellectually accessible to the human mind?</strong></p><p>A host of philosophers theologians scientists and mathematicians of the Great Western Tradition have been struck by the uncanny interconnection between three fundamentally distinct domains of reality: nature mathematics and the human mind. This resonance has been discussed since antiquity and often attributed to a transcendent rational source of both material and immaterial aspects of reality. Johannes Kepler a devout Christian who was greatly influenced by this intellectual tradition was instrumental in transforming classical astronomy into a true celestial physics. He was convinced that a tripartite harmony of archetype copy and image explained the interconnections that made his natural philosophy possible-that allowed him to share in God's own thoughts. Rather than being diminished by the past few centuries of scientific progress Keplerian natural theology is a more robust explanation of cosmic comprehensibility than ever before.</p>