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.

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...

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Superior document:Studies in the History of Christian Thought, Volume 71
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Brill,, [1996]
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Year of Publication:1996
Language:English
Series:Studies in the history of Christian thought ; Volume 71.
Physical Description:1 online resource (386 pages)
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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.