Nicholas of Cusa and the making of the early modern world / edited by Simon J.G. Burton, Joshua Hollmann, and Eric M. Parker.

• TeilnehmendeR: Burton, Simon J. G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 190.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 pages).

Nicholas of Cusa and Early Modern Reform sheds new light on Cusanus’ relationship to early modernity by focusing on the reform of church, the reform of theology, the reform of perspective, and the reform of method – which together aim to encompass the breadth and depth of Cusanus’ own reform initiatives. In particular, in examining the way in which he served as inspiration for a wide and diverse array of reform-minded philosophers, ecclesiastics, theologians, and lay scholars in the midst of their struggle for the renewal and restoration of the individual, society, and the world, our volume combines a focus on Cusanus as a paradigmatic thinker with a study of his concrete influence on early modern thought. This volume is aimed at scholars working in the field of late medieval and early modern philosophy, theology, and history of science. As the first Anglophone volume to explore the early modern reception of Nicholas of Cusa, this work will provide an important complement to a growing number of companions focusing on his life and thought.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Nicholas of Cusa and Early Modern Reform / Simon J.G. Burton , Joshua Hollmann and Eric M. Parker -- Reformatio Generalis: Ecclesiastical Reform -- A Difficult Pope: Eugenius iv and the Men around Him / Thomas M. Izbicki and Luke Bancroft -- The Reform of Space for Prayer: Ecclesia primitiva in Nicholas of Cusa and Leon Battista Alberti / Il Kim -- “Papista Insanissima”: Papacy and Reform in Nicholas of Cusa’s Reformatio Generalis (1459) and the Early Martin Luther (1517–19) / Richard J. Serina Jr. -- Nicholas of Cusa and Paolo Sarpi: Copernicanism and Conciliarism in Early Modern Venice / Alberto Clerici -- Coincidentia Oppositorum: Theological Reform -- Nicholas of Cusa and Martin Luther on Christ and the Coincidence of Opposites / Joshua Hollmann -- Ignorantia Non Docta: John Calvin and Nicholas of Cusa’s Neglected Trinitarian Legacy / Gary W. Jenkins -- Nicholas of Cusa and Pantheism in Early Modern Catholic Theology / Matthew T. Gaetano -- Explicatio Visionis: Reform of Perspective -- The Notion of Faith in the Works of Nicholas Cusanus and Giordano Bruno / Luisa Brotto -- “The Sacred Circle of All-Being”: Cusanus, Lord Brooke, and Peter Sterry / Eric M. Parker -- Varieties of Spiritual Sense: Cusanus and John Smith / Derek Michaud -- Motion, Space, and Early Modern Re-formations of the Cosmos: Nicholas of Cusa’s Anima Mundi and Henry More’s Spirit of Nature / Nathan R. Strunk -- Mathesis Universalis: Reform of Method -- Cusanus and Boethian Theology in the Early French Reform / Richard J. Oosterhoff -- Nicholas Cusanus and Guillaume Postel on Learning and Docta Ignorantia / Roberta Giubilini -- The Book Metaphor Triadized: the Layman’s Bible and God’s Books in Raymond of Sabunde, Nicholas of Cusa and Jan Amos Comenius / Petr Pavlas -- “Squaring the Circle”: Cusan Metaphysics and the Pansophic Vision of Jan Amos Comenius / Simon J.G. Burton -- Cusanus and Leibniz: Symbolic Explorations of Infinity as a Ladder to God / Jan Makovský -- Epilogue: Ernst Cassirer and Renaissance Cultural Studies / Michael Edward Moore.