Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Images -- Foreward -- Acknowledgements -- A Necessary Letter to the Reader: On the Ethos of Arts-Based Contemplative Inquiry -- 1 Narrative Beginnings: The Seeds of Inquiry and the Imperative of Story -- 2 Meditations on Merton's Paradox: Narrative, Aesthetics and the Emergence of the Wisdom Image -- 3 The Journey of the "Perpetual Seeker": Of Emerging Questions on the Dialogical Ethos of Wisdom and Art
4 The Friendship of Texts: Beyond a Referential Relation With Texts Onto the Dialogical in Inquiry -- 5 Towards a Methodology of One: The Personal Versus the Socio-Empirical in Inquiry -- 6 The Imaginal as a Pathway Onto Wisdom: A Prolegomenon for a Classroom Practice -- 7 The Journey of Gionitus and "Newton's Child": Concluding Reflections on the Imperative of the Personal and Aesthetical in Arts-Based Contemplative Inquiry -- Bibliography -- Index
