Philosophia Perennis

The study features the five most important and most efficacious themes of Western spirituality in their ancient historical origins and in their unfolding up to early modernity: Divine names, Microkosmos-Makrokosmos, theories of creation, the idea of spiritual spaces, and the concepts of eschatological history.

First comprehensive study on the history of spirituality for the periods of ancient, medieval and early modern period

Inhalt
Fantasy and the Historiography of Imagination.- Outlines of Perennial Philosophy.- Glory.- Divine Names.- Kosmos Anthropos.- Archetypes.- Spiritual Spaces.- Theology of Time.- The Return of Time.- Epochs and Eras.- Translatio Sapientiae.- The Echo of Perennial Philosophy.- Schelling's World-Ages.