Introducing Nicholas of Cusa: A guide to a renaissance man. Eugene: Wipf and Stock.īellitto, Christopher M., Thomas M. A study of Nicholas of Cusa’s Manuductive approach to Islam. On faith, rationality, and the other in the late middle ages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.īakos, Gergely Tibor. Mathematical theologies: Nicholas of Cusa and the legacy of Thierry of Chartres. Des Kardinals Nicolaus von Cusa Dialogus von der Uebereinstimmung oder Einheit des Glaubens. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press. Nicholas of Cusa on interreligious harmony: Text, concordance and translation of De pace fidei, ed. A translation and an appraisal of De Ignota Litteratura and Apologia Doctae Ignorantiae, ed. Nicholas of Cusa’s debate with John Wenck. Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. Cusanus was received as a model of rational mysticism but also as the first modern philosopher to emphasize the power of the human mind. One foundation of Nicholas’ thinking is the mutual implication of oneness and diversity (as implied in the idea of coincidence) applying this to the question of diversity of religions he suggests that all of them, including Islam, compete with one another in worshipping one and the same God so that religious war is a contradiction in terms. Mystical experience opens the anthropological idea that aiming for the supernatural is essential to being human and prefigured in the dual nature of Christ. Mysticism, however, was for Cusanus always also a pastoral effort communicated to ordinary believers. At this juncture, mathematics meets mysticism, since both address the dependence of the finite from the absolute. This insight is exercised in and illustrated by mathematical studies, most prominently the squaring of circles. For this he developed the concept of coincidence of opposites that occurs on the level of the absolute and of the minimal. His philosophical theology shifted the perspective from dogmatic approaches to epistemology so that the quest for knowing God was rephrased as the problem of consciously knowing that the transcendent is unknowable. In his philosophical work he covered philosophical theology, mathematical theory, mysticism, philosophical anthropology, and philosophy of religion. Nicholas of Cusa was born in Kues (Germany) in 1401 and died in 1464 in Todi (Italy) he studied canon law and pursued a career in the Church, eventually becoming Cardinal.
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