Knowledge and the sacred
By: Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Series: The Gifford lectures ;; 1981
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Knowledge and its desacralization; title: What is tradition?; title: The rediscovery of the sacred; title: Scientia sacra; title: Man, pontifical and Promethean; title: The cosmos as theophany; title: Eternity and the temporal order; title: Traditional art as fountain of knowledge and grace; title: Principal knowledge and the multiplicity of sacred forms; title: Knowledge of the sacred as deliverance.