The Structure of Religious Knowing: Encountering the Sacred in Eliade and Lonergan

by John D. Dadosky

This definitive study brings together the thought of Romanian religious scholar Mircea Eliade with that of Canadian philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan to identify the general structure of religious knowing. Applying Lonergan's fourfold levels of consciousness as an interpretive framework, the author elicits a clearer understanding of Eliade's theories of the sacred by treating four principle themes: the experience of the sacred; the sacred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791460614
• ISBN13: 9780791460610
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"