Knowledge of the Sacred
acc. to S H Nasr

Q / A
Buddha
Böme
conciousness
Cusa
Eckhart
Erigena
faith and knowledge
hermeneutics
humanism
illumination
knowledge
Luther
man
nature
Origen
Paul
Plato
Reality
spiritual life of man
St. Augustine
St. Thomas
the Intellect
the Sacred
the supreme Substance
the Tree of Life and Tree of Good and Evil
Upanishads

 

Hold your "mouse over the KS..-..-link" - to see the answer:

( for those numbers see NB )

The answers are quotes from the book 'Knowledge And The Sacred'


00+ What was Reality in the beginning at once? KS1 o

What has happened with knowledge over time? KS1-11

What has become well-nigh unattainable to the vast majority of humans? KS1-7

What is is the very substance of knowledge? KS1-2

Intelligence is endowed with the possibility of what?KS2+3

What is is symbolized by the tree of Life, and
What happened to man after having tasted from the Tree of Good and Evil? KS2+10

What remains the supreme way to gain access to the Sacred? KS2+18

Modern man has lost the sense of what? KS2-8

To what mystery has man become oblivious to? KS2-3

What is man's long journey in time? KS3+15

With what continues the human conciousness to be blessed? KS3+18

What is the principle of adequation of the medieval scholastics? KS49fn6

What can happen to the rational faculty if divorced from intellect and revelation? KS3-2

How can man be defined - rather than being a 'rational animal' ? KS4+6

What is to be human? KS4+7

What is the supreme Substance ? KS4+9

To what is the supreme Substance related? KS4+11

This intellectual faculty has been replaced by what? KS4+13

What has to be discovered in order to rediscover the Sacred? KS4+17

How can this process be facilitated? KS4+18

What was the consequence of the reduction of intellect to reason ? KS4-9

What was the consequence of the limitation of intelligence to cunning and cleverness in the modern world? KS4-10

What was theologia for Plato? KS49fn7

What possibility has the traditional doctrine envisaged man to be possessing? KS6+9

What has the reduction of man's intellectual faculty to only the extroverted and analytical function of the mind led many religiously sensitive persons? KS6+16

What is the relationship of faith and knowledge ? KS6-17

How does Shankara explain the Upanishads (lit. 'near-sitting')?KS7+2

What was the supreme experience of Buddha and what does it imply? KS7-12

What is the gnostic or illuminated sage called (in Islam) KS12+10

Paul asserted sacred knowledge to be one of Christ's what? KS15-7

What happened during the last 2000 years to this sapiential dimension of the Christian tradition ?KS16+1

How can a mind totally depleted of the Sacred grasp the significance of the Sacred as sacred? KS16+18

What is the central depository of sacred knowledge for Origen? KS17-1

What is (according to him) the function of spiritual beings (concerning sacred Scripture)? KS18+9

What is the spiritual life of man? KS18+12

What makes it possible for man to grasp the inner meaning of scripture and to become illuminated by this knowledge ? KS18+14

What is the Logos? KS18c KS21+6

What is hermeneutics ? KS18-8

What does the 'kiss of his mouth' from the songs of songs (OT) allude to? KS19 c

What change of perspective took place in Christianity concerning the role of the Christ? KS19-19

What did St. Augustine (in spite of Christianity's emphasis of Christ's role as the saviour of fallen man from his sins) accept concerning the intellect? KS19-13

What elements of later Western Christian thought does one not find with St. Augustin? KS19-7

What did Erigena see at the heart of Christianity? KS20-3

Why is divine knowledge no longer immediately available to man, although the Logos is ever present in him? KS21+11

ST21: In wisdom psychology and religion become united and wisdom is a virtue common to man and angel.

What is the Logos? KS21+6

Through what does this light of God remain accessible (and available) to man even now-a-days? KS21+15

What saw Erigena in the book of nature? KS21-18

What is the beginning of human perfection and the quest for the attainment of sacred knowledge according to Erigena? KS21-14

What happens to scientia after this first stage? KS21-12

What does this illumination in turn enable man to realize concerning the essence of things? KS21-9

The intellect becomes transformed into what? KS21-7

Why is this knowledge of the Divinity [sacred knowledge] not immediately accessible to man in his present state, according to Erigena? KS21-5

What has the soul to do to regain that sacred knowledge? KS21-1

What were the drawbacks of the metaphysical system of St. Thomas? KS22-12

The philosophical agnosticism after St. Thomas could not have come about had the intellectual life of Christianity remained impregnated by what? KS23+9

In this context Eckhart, is what? KS23 cl

Why is - according to Eckhart - the root of the intellect grounded in Divinity? KS23-14

What is the seat of conciousness through which man can reach knowledge of the Divinity (or Grund) according to Eckhart? KS23-12

What is , according to Eckhart the eye with which man sees God and with which God sees man? KS23-3

What is humanism ? KS24-14

The knowledge [of the Divinity] can be attained - according to Cusa except through what? KS25-9

What realization does Cusa's doctrine constitute concerning our "positive knowledge"? KS26+2

What did Luther state concerning faith? KS26cl

But Christian love is (or can be) related to knowledge through what? KS26+19

What is man's natural language according to Böme? KS27-3

to be continued - inshA

NB:

KS = Knowledge And The Sacred, Seyyed Hossein Nasr; NY. 1989
KS3+2 = page 3; row 2 from above
KS4-9 = page 4; row 9 from bottom

 






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