Knowledge and the sacred /
Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1981.
- ix, 341 p. ; 24 cm.
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.