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

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 b...

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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.
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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.