accidental intrusion of a campus security officer, the brilliantly eccentric Northern California mathematician, Ralph Abraham, was famously arrested for pot smoking. The campus officer told me that, late one night, thinking he had smelled fire, he used his master key to make an unwelcome entrance. The incident became part of the record in House of Commons hearings about the intellectual and moral decay of English Universities. Apparently, even among English intellectuals, there were trivial and politicized definitions of virtue. Christopher Zeeman, the head of the Mathematics Institute was a world- class topologist who, among other things, demonstrated biological and social- psychological applications of Rene Thom’s Catastrophe Theory. | was invited as a brain person and amateur mathematician, to see what might result from mixing me with members of his fine mathematics faculty. In addition to learning some bifurcation and lots of ergodic (statistical) theory, my chats with Christian and Jewish mathematicians on Saturday and Sunday morning visits to the synagogues and chapels of Oxford and Cambridge introduced me to an English intellectual’s religious tradition. The spirit of C.S. Lewis was still very much alive. Surprising, however, was that more than a few of these scholars had the elements of Christian faith in full menu: virgin birth, incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, original sin and the promise of salvation. | was disabused of my belief that these elements of Christian belief were incompatible with high mental capacity and _ intellectual sophistication. Yet, the spiritual climate of these English intellectual Christians were different from today’s post, post Vietnam return of the religious themes of the turn of the Twentieth Century, big tent revivalism and Billy Sunday’s brand of Christian patriotic America. Today’s religious patriotism infuses George W. Bush’s Republican base, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice’s after dinner hymns and Attorne