Suger’s “theology of beauty”: from Dionysius the Areopagite (mistaken for St. Denis) Neo-Platonic philosophy, purity of light: everything thing emits a bit of light; God is all lightStained glass windowsLux Nova (“new light”: refers to biblical God of light)Stained glass: light passes through it; vs. Byzantine mosaics: “scattered reflected light off an opaque surface” (Cunningham et al. 313)Illiterate people could “read” the Bible in glass