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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004477926
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Book Description
This volume contains studies on Nicholas of Cusa and his times. The first section is concerned with Cusanus' context, beginning with a historiographic essay by Francis Oakley on the impact of Brian Tierney's Foundations of the Conciliar Theory. Among the topics addressed are the long-term continuation of the Council of Basel (1431-1449) and the issues of ecclesiastical income which it addressed. The second part is concerned with Cusanus' thought on the Church, both in his conciliarist and papalist phases. Included is the first translation into English of Nicholas' Reformatio generalis. Attention also is paid to Cusanus' reforming efforts and the relationship of his thought on these issues to his earliest speculative writings. The third part is concerned with Nicholas' ideas on Christ and mystical experience. Particular attention is paid to the De visione dei, including its relationship to Renaissance art. The volume concludes with wide-ranging essays on the larger significance of Cusanus' speculative thought. An update of Thomas M. Izbicki's bibliography of Cusanus scholarship in English is included.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004385681
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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The authors focus on four major thematic areas – the reform of church, the reform of theology, the reform of perspective, and the reform of method – which together encompasses the breadth and depth of Cusanus’ own reform initiatives.
Author: Christopher M. Bellitto
Publisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809141395
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) was one of the most illustrious figures of the fifteenth century--a man whose imagination spanned the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance to point the way to modernity. Theologian, philosopher, canon lawyer, reformer, church statesman, and cardinal, Cusanus' ideas of learned ignorance and the coincidence of opposites still attract attention today across a wide variety of disciplines. However, there is no one book in the marketplace that explains to a general audience all the different facets of this Renaissance man. This book, which might be considered "Nicholas of Cusa 101," offers separate chapters for the non-specialist introducing the vocabulary, ideas, and works of Nicholas of Cusa on a wide variety of topics. The book also provides a guide to his works in Latin, English, and other languages; all the secondary literature on each topic treated; a glossary of Cusan terms and ideas; and a guide to Cusan societies, sites, libraries, and museums.
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004382410
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 375
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Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) was active during the Renaissance, developing adventurous ideas even while serving as a churchman. The religious issues with which he engaged – spiritual, apocalyptic and institutional – were to play out in the Reformation
Author: Nancy J. Hudson
Publisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813214726
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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The doctrine of theosis means a salvation that is the deification of the saved. The saved actually become God. This unusual doctrine lies at the heart of Nicholas of Cusa's (1401-1464) mystical metaphysics. It is here examined for the first time as a theme in its own right, along with its implications for Cusanus's doctrine of God, his theological anthropology, and his epistemology.
Author: Cardinal Nicholas (of Cusa)
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674025240
Category : History
Languages : la
Pages : 700
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Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), a student of canon law who became a Catholic cardinal, was widely considered the most important original philosopher of the Renaissance. He wrote principally on theology, philosophy, and church politics. This volume makes most of Nicholas's other writings on Church and reform available in English for the first time.
Author: Richard J. Serina
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004326766
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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Nicholas of Cusa’s Brixen Sermons presents the concepts of church and reform that the fifteenth-century speculative thinker preached as a residential bishop and relates them to the challenges of late medieval church reform.
Author: Nicholas of Cusa
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
ISBN: 1616409894
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Known for his deeply mystical writings about Christianity, Nicholas of Cusa wrote this, his most popular work, against a backdrop of widespread Church corruption. God, he believed, is found in all things, and thus cannot be perceived by man's senses and intellect alone. The path to ultimate knowledge, then, begins in recognizing our own ignorance. Deeply influenced by Saint Augustine, Nicholas mixes the metaphysical with the personal to create a deeply felt work, first published in 1453, designed to restore faith in even the most jaded.
Author: Cardinal Nicholas (of Cusa)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Author: Nicholas of Cusa
Publisher: Book Tree
ISBN: 9781585090044
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Nicholas was a Christian mystic who lived during the 1400s. This classic of Christian mysticism has put countless believers in touch with the divine. Many Christians have a desire to experience God, in addition to just believing in Him. An excellent guidebook for those who sense something deeper to the Christian experience. By bringing spiritual principles into the Christian religious setting, Nicholas was able to instruct and enrich thousands of people. He spent much time with a group of Benedictine monks who had asked for spiritual guidance. He responded with this book in December of 1453.
