From the Sacred to the Divine: A New Phenomenological Approach

The Theme: The Sacred as the Ground of Religion. Inaugural Study. From the Sacred to the Divine; A-T. Tymieniecka. Part One: The Sacred as a Station to Take Off From ... The Idea of the Sacred in Twentieth Century Thought: Four Views (Otto; Nygren; Schelen; Tymieniecka); T. Ryba. Telic Divinity and its Atelic Ground; S.W. Laycock. Religion and the Sacred; J.N. Mohanty. Laycock, a Phenomenological Whiteheadian? E. Wyschogrod. The Critique of Reason, Creativity, and Mystical Experience; A. Ales Bello. The Communication of the Sacred in Tymieniecka's Three Movements of the Soul; J.S. Smith. A-T. Tymieniecka's Challenges: From a Spiritual Wasteland to Transcendence; M.E. Kronegger. Part Two: The Metaphor of the Sacred and the `Origins'. The Metaphor of the Sacred, or the Allegory of Origin; G. Bucher. Phenomenology as the Semiotics of Archaic or `Different' Life Experiences -- Toward an Analysis of the Sacred; D.A. Conci, A. Ales Bello. Part Three: The Allegory of the Sacred. Allegorical Voyages: Louis XIII and the Sacred; M.E. Kronegger. L'affleurement allégorique dans l'image du combat: sur le Saint Georges de Cosmé Tura; C. Bédard. Islamic Hermeneutics and Shihabuddin Suhrawardi's Language of the Ants; B. Ross. Le véritable Saint Genest: Creativity and the Movement from the Profane to the Sacred; C. Osowiec Ruoff. Part Four: Sacred Space and Power. The Poetics and Politics of Sacred Space: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Religion; D. Chidester. The New Dimension of the Sacred as Non-Power;G. Penzo. Part Five: The Sacred, the Divine, Religion. What is Special about Phenomenology of Religion? J.N. Mohanty. Toward a Phenomenology of the Absolute; F. Liverziani. The Destiny of the Soul and the Path of the Tao: Two Philosophical Anthropologies; Y. Park. The Phenomenologist's Anselm; S.W. Laycock. The Magister internus: an Augustinian Proto-Phenomenology of Faith as Desire and Teacher; T. Ryba. Temporal and `Kairic' Categories Applied to Providential History; E.A. Moutsopoulos. Phenomenology, Religious Studies, and Theology; A.M. Olson. Index of Names.