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Knowledge and the sacred / Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BL51 .N37 1981
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nasr, Seyyed Hossein.
- Series:
- Gifford lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Knowledge, Theory of (Religion).
- Physical Description:
- ix, 341 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [1981]
- 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 fountai
- and grace
- Principal knowledge and the multiplicity of sacred forms
- Knowledge of the sacred as deliverance. +
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acc.#204179
- ISBN:
- 0852244339 :
- OCLC:
- 8721588
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