Knowledge and the sacred

Knowledge and the sacred

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
Format: Book
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press c1981
Series:The Gifford lectures 1981
Subjects:
Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
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Table of Contents:
  • Knowledge and its desacralization
  • What is tradition?
  • The rediscovery of the sacred
  • Scientia sacra
  • Man, pontifical and Promethean
  • The cosmos as theophany
  • Eternity and the temporal order
  • Traditional art as fountain of knowledge and grace
  • Principal knowledge and the multiplicity of sacred forms
  • Knowledge of the sacred as deliverance

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