Nicholas of Cusa and times of transition : : essays in honor of Gerald Christianson / / edited by Thomas M. Izbicki, Jason Aleksander, and Donald F. Duclow.

• TeilnehmendeR: Christianson, Gerald,; Izbicki, Thomas M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 188.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (355 pages).
• Notes: Includes indexes.

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. These essays reflect the interests of Cusanus but also those of Gerald Christianson, who has studied church history, the Renaissance and the Reformation. The book places Nicholas into his times but also looks at his later reception. The first part addresses institutional issues, including Schism, conciliarism, indulgences and the possibility of dialogue with Muslims. The second treats theological and philosophical themes, including nominalism, time, faith, religious metaphor, and prediction of the end times.

Table of Contents

Historical Studies -- Una ecclesia in rituum varietate: Unity and Diversity of the Church according to Nicholas of Cusa / Walter Andreas Euler -- The Political Philosophy of Franciscus Zabarella as Seen in His Public Addresses and Other Works / Thomas E. Morrissey -- The Response of the Spanish Kingdoms to the Reform Efforts of the Council of Constance (1414–1418) / Phillip Stump -- Tyrannicide and the Question of (Il)licit Violence in the Fifteenth Century / David Zachariah Flanagin -- The Council of Basel and Other Political Assemblies as Cultural Phenomena / Michiel Decaluwé -- The Legate Grants Indulgences: Cusanus in Germany in 1450–1453 / Thomas M. Izbicki -- Cusanus, the Greeks, and Islam / John Monfasani -- Reading Cusanus’ Cribratio Alkorani (1461) in the Light of Christian Antiquarianism at the Papal Court in the 1450s / Il Kim -- Between Cusanus and Luther: Kymeus’ The Pope’s Hercules against the Germans / Philip Krey -- Language, Leadership, and Locations of Church Reform in the Libellus ad Leonem Decimum / Christopher M. Bellitto -- Sharing Friends and Foes: on the Relation between Nicholas Cusanus and Martin Luther / Knut Alfsvåg -- Philosophical and Theological Studies -- Justification by Faith in Nicholas of Cusa / Peter Casarella -- Faith as Poiesis in Nicholas of Cusa’s Pursuit of Wisdom / Jason Aleksander -- Cusanus and Nominalism / Meredith Ziebart -- Between Time and Eternity: Neoplatonic Precursors to Cusanus’ Conception of “Non-Temporal Time” in De aequalitate / Elizabeth Brient -- Before the Icon: the Figural Matrix of De visione Dei / David Albertson -- The Metaphor of Light and the Light of Metaphor in Nicholas of Cusa / Clyde Lee Miller -- “Our Substance is God’s Coin”: Nicholas of Cusa on Minting, Defiling, and Restoring the Imago Dei / Donald F. Duclow -- Apocalypticism and Church Reform in Nicholas of Cusa / Richard J. Serina Jr. -- The Conjecture on the Last Days (Coniectura de ultimis diebus): Cusanus and Concordist Eschatology / Bernard McGinn -- Gerald Christianson, Curriculum Vitae.