Nicholas of Cusa on Christ and the church : : essays in memory of Chandler McCuskey Brooks for the American Cusanus Society / / edited by Gerald Christianson, Thomas M. Izbicki.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Christian Thought, Volume 71
• Author: American Cusanus Society.
• TeilnehmendeR: Christianson, Gerald,; Izbicki, Thomas M.,; American Cusanus Society.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [1996]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christian thought ; Volume 71.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (386 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. Izbicki -- Acknowledgements / Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. Izbicki -- Note on the Citations of the Works of Cusanus / Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. Izbicki -- Abbreviations / Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. Izbicki -- Dedication to the Memory of Chandler McCuskey Brooks / Morimichi Watanabe -- Introduction / Bernard McGinn -- Verius est licet difficilius: Tierney's Foundations of the Conciliar Theory after Forty Years / Francis Oakley -- Basel, the Permanent Synod? Observations on Duration and Continuity at the Council of Basel (1431-1449) / Johannes Helmrath -- Ecce sacerdos magnus: On Welcoming a New Bishop. Three Addresses for Bishops of Padua by Franciscus Zabarella / Thomas E. Morrissey -- Juan de Segovia's Super materia contractuum de censibus annuis: Text and Context / Jesse D. Mann -- Nicholas of Cusa and the Presidency Debate at the Council of Basel, 1434 / Gerald Christianson -- Nicholas of Cusa's Ecclesiology between Reform and Reformation / Scott H. Hendrix -- Nicholas of Cusa on the Constitution of the Church / Paul E. Sigmund -- Nicholas of Cusa from Constantinople to "Learned Ignorance": The Historical Matrix for the Formation of the De docta ignorantia / H. Lawrence Bond -- Cusanus and Pastoral Renewal: The Reform of Popular Religion in the Germanies / Donald Sullivan -- Nicholas of Cusa, A General Reform of the Church / Morimichi Watanabe and Thomas M. Izbicki -- The Mystical Theology of Nicholas of Cusa's De visione dei / Louis Dupré -- The Consolation of Contemplation in Nicholas of Cusa's De visione dei / M. Führer -- God's Presence: Some Cusan Proposals / Clyde Lee Miller -- Aspect and Perspective in Renaissance Thought: Nicholas of Cusa and Jan van Eyck / Clifton Olds -- Non-Referentiality in the Christian Icon and the Buddhist Thangka / Roger J. Corless -- The De aequalitate and the De Principio of Nicholas of Cusa / F. Edward Cranz -- His Name Is Jesus: Negative Theology and Christology in Two Writings of Nicholas of Cusa from 1440 / Peter J. Casarella -- Nicholas of Cusa as Theoretician of Unity / Birgit H. Helander -- Absolute Truth and Conjectural Insights / Wilhelm Dupré -- Nicholas of Cusa: The Literature in English, 1989-1994 / Thomas M. Izbicki -- Index / Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. Izbicki -- List of Contributors / Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. Izbicki -- Studies in the History of Christian Thought / Editor: Heiko A. Oberman.