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This is the first volume of a new series of research publications in geography which is published for the Department of Geography, University of Toronto. The Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of God traces the development of the idea of the hydrologic cycle in the context of natural theology. The notion that "all creation exhibits the wisdom of the Creator" was once a widely held belief in the Western world. However, unlike stars and biological organisms, the physical features of the earth, with their evident lack of pattern, were difficult to reconcile with God's wisdom until scholars and scientists, at the end of the seventeenth century, found a satisfactory solution in the concept of the hydrologic cycle. The concept served to explain the earth's features so well that in the process it explained away one of them-the great deserts. This work shows the growth and eventual decay of a concept which attempts to relate the broad range of seemingly little-connected phenomena that physical geographers, in their several capacities, are still committed to study. It will be of interest to physical geographers and all scholars who are concerned with historical attitudes towards man's physical environment. (University of Toronto Department of Geography Publications No. 1).

Hydrology. --- God --- Sophianism --- Sophiology --- Wisdom --- Aquatic sciences --- Earth sciences --- Hydrography --- Water --- Wisdom.

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Vladimir Solov’ev and the Knighthood of the Divine Sophia tells how at the turn of the century an intimate alliance of philosophers, poets and theologians discovered the incarnation of their aspirations for a spiritually transformed world in the symbol of Sophia, the Divine Wisdom of God.Under her various aliases as the Divine Feminine, the Wisdom Clothed in the Sun and the Beautiful Lady, this feminine archetype usurped the traditional role of Christ as the mediator between heaven and earth. She was, however, primarily the inspiration of the Russian philosopher-poet, Vladimir Solov’ev (1853–1900), who created of her the cornerstone for both his metaphysical and aesthetic systems. This spiritual courtship of the Divine Sophia deeply patterned the literary works and interrelationships not only of such prominent symbolist writers as Aleksandr Blok and Andrej Belyj, but brought to light religious eccentrics like Anna Schmidt in a scandalous fashion. Sophia’s influence ranged far beyond the narrower confines of literature and eventually provoked one of the most fascinating debates within the modern émigré Russian Orthodox Church through the offices of Sergej Bulakov, an apparent student of Solovev’s Sophiology.

Russian poetry --- Symbolism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Solovyov, Vladimir Sergeyevich, --- Symbolism. --- Signs and symbols in literature --- Symbolism in folk literature --- Соловьев, Владимир Сергеевич, --- Solowjew, W. S., --- Solovyof, Vladimir, --- Solovyev, Vladimir, --- Solovjeff, Wladimir, --- Solovjovas, Vladimiras, --- Soloviev, Wladimir, --- Solovʹev, Vladimir Sergeevich, --- Solowiew, Wladimir, --- Solowjow, Wladimir, --- Soloviev, Vladimir, --- Solowjoff, Wladimir, --- Solovjev, Vladimir, --- Solowjew, Wladimir, --- Соловьев, Вл. --- Solovʹev, Vl. --- Соловьев, В. С. --- Solovʹev, V. S. --- So-lo-wei-yüeh-fu, --- Soloviev, Vi. Soiovʹev V., --- Soloviev, V. S., --- Solovjov, Vladimír Sergejevič, --- סאלאוויאוו, וולאדימיר סערגעיעוו, --- Solovʼëv, Vladimir, --- Szolovjov, Vlagyimir, --- Russian orthodoxy. --- Russian philosophy. --- Russian poetry. --- Russian theology. --- Sophiology. --- philosophy and religion. --- poetry and philosophy. --- religious eccentric. --- spiritual courtship.