Author: Nasr, Seyyed Hossein
Title: The Need for a Sacred Science
Description: Albany, State University of New York, (1993). orig.boards. 23x15cm, v, 187 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: The World of the Spirit: A Metaphysical Context for the Cultivation of Sacred Science: God is Reality; Self-awareness & Ultimate Selfhood; Time - The Moving Image of Eternity; The Unity of the Divine Stratosphere: The Diversity of the Human Atmosphere: One is the Spirit & Many its Human Reflections: Thoughts on the Human Condition Today; The Philosophia Perennis & the Study of Religion; Science: Traditional & Modern: Western Science & Asian Cultures; The Traditional Sciences; The Spiritual Significance of Nature; Tradition, Science & the Modern Predicament: Sacred Science & the Environmental Crisis- An Islamic Perspective; The Concept of Human Progress through Material Evolution: A Traditional Critique; Reflections on the Theological Modernism of Hans Kung; Postscript: The Need for a Sacred Science.

Keywords: Comparative Religion, Metaphysical, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Islamic Theology, Islam, , ,