“”Michael Horace Barnes’’s The Enduring Quest for Meaning: Humans, Mystery, and the Story of Religion (the revised edition of Barnes’’s peerless textbook, In the Presence of Mystery [1984]), puts a much finer point to his exploration of ‘a supreme and awesome unity’ of the entire universe. I can think of no other work that will better accompany the reading of Pope Francis’’s critically important encyclical on ecology, Laudato si’, than this work. The coherence and timing are propitious and providential.””