TY - BOOK AU - Nasr,Seyyed Hossein TI - Knowledge and the sacred T2 - Gifford lectures SN - 0824500954 : AV - BL51 .N316x U1 - 200.1 19 PY - 1981/// CY - New York PB - Crossroad KW - Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Knowledge and its desacralization --What is tradition? -- The rediscovery of the sacred : the revival of tradition -- 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 ER -