you could look at something like Dante’s Divine Comedy, for a similar kind of thing in a more poetic mode. There is a difference in these understandings, and the modern universe is different than the pre-modern cosmos. Before, there was an understanding of the relation between the human and the divine, particularly the Christian God, which gave meaning to the whole of the world and to the whole of human experience. But that has changed. Charles Taylor in his magisterial work A Secular Age makes the