From the Sacred to the Divine

Inaugural Study.- From the Sacred to the Divine.- One The Sacred as a Station to Take Off From.- The Idea of the Sacred in Twentieth-Century Thought: Four Views (Otto, Nygren, Scheler, Tymieniecka).- Telic Divinity and Its Atelic Ground.- Religion and the Sacred.- Laycock, a Phenomenological White-headian?.- The Critique of Reason, Creativity, and Mystical Experience.- The Communication of the Sacred in Tymieniecka's The Three Movements of the Soul.- A-T. Tymieniecka's Challenges: From a Spiritual Wasteland to Transcendence.- Two The Metaphor of the Sacred and "Origins".- The Metaphor of the Sacred, or the Allegory of Origin.- Phenomenology as the Semiotics of Archaic or "Different" Life Experiences -Toward an Analysis of the Sacred.- Three The Allegory of the Sacred.- Allegorical Voyages: Louis XIII and the Sacred.- L'Affleurement allégorique dans l'image du combat: sur le Saint Georges de Cosmè Tura.- Islamic Hermeneutics and Shihabuddin Suhrawardi's Language of the Ants.- Le véritable Saint Genest Creativity and the Movement from the Profane to the Sacred.- Four Sacred Space and Power.- The Poetics and Politics of Sacred Space: Towards a Critical Phenomenology of Religion.- The New Dimension of the Sacred as Non-Power.- Five The Sacred, the Divine, Religion.- What Is Special about Phenomenology of Religion?.- Toward a Phenomenology of the Absolute.- The Destiny of the Soul and the Path of the Tao: Two Philosophical Anthropologies.- The Phenomenologist's Anselm.- The Magister Internus An Augustinian Proto-Phenomenology of Faith as Desire and Teacher.- Temporal and "Kairic" Categories Applied to Providential History.- Phenomenology, Religious Studies, and Theology.- Index of Names.

Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka is a Polish-born American philosopher, one of the most important and continuously active contemporary phenomenologists, founder and president of "The World Phenomenology Institute".