Mystical Theology and Platonism in the Time of Cusanus : : essays in honor of Donald F. Duclow / / Donald F. Duclow, and three others.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions Series ; v.201
• TeilnehmendeR: Duclow, Donald F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource ( xvii, 394 pages)

"[This book] engages with the history of mystical theology and Neoplatonic philosophy through the lens of the 15th century philosopher and theologian, Nicholas of Cusa. The volume comprises nineteen essays that break down the barriers between medieval and Renaissance studies, reinterpreting Cusanus' place in the history of thought by exploring the archive that informed his thinking, while also interrogating his works by exploring them from the standpoint of their later reception by modern philosophers and theologians. The volume also offers tribute to the career of Donald F. Duclow, a leading scholar in the field of Cusanus studies in particular and of the history of mystical theology and Neoplatonic philosophy more generally." --From publisher's website.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword: A Personal and Professional Tribute to Donald F. Duclow -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures -- Editors' Introduction -- Part 1 Cusanus and the Traditions of Medieval and Renaissance Mysticism -- Chapter 1 Jean Gerson's Annotatio and the Contours of Mystical Theology -- 1 The Annotatio -- 2 Pure Prayer -- 3 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 The Consolations of Mystical Theology: Boethius, Eckhart, and Suso on Suffering -- 1 Cosmic Image and Consolation in Boethius -- 2 The Metaphysics of Consolation: Eckhart's Transformation of the Boethian Image -- 3 The Interiorization of the Cosmic Image in Medieval Mystical Thought -- 4 Suffering, the Flesh, and Consolation in Later Medieval Mystical Theology -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Translations of Ps. Dionysius in the Contributions of Marquard Sprenger to the Tegernsee Debate -- Appendix: A Detailed Exegesis of Dionysius [Marquard Sprenger, Elucidatorium mystica theologiae, Munich Clm. 18759, fol. 378r-381r] -- Chapter 4 "This Master Is Exceptional in All His Writings": Cusanus and Wenck Read Eckhart -- Chapter 5 "Rabbi Salomon and All Wise People": Nicholas of Cusa and the Mystical Complications of Jewish Authority -- 1 Real and Unreal Jews in Nicholas of Cusa -- 2 The Rise and Fall of Cusanus' Jewish Mystical Authority -- 3 Christian Concordantia and the Hebrew Bible -- 4 Conclusions: Jewish Erasure or Christian Hebraism? -- Chapter 6 Nicholas of Cusa's Mystical Reading of the Qurʾan -- Part 2 The Themes of Cusanus's Mystical Theology -- Chapter 7 Verum vero consonat: What Is True Harmonizes with the True -- 1 The Challenge of Doctrinal Truth Claims -- 2 Conjectural Neoplatonism -- 3 "What Has Been Found by Diligent Meditations" -- 4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement.

Chapter 8 Nicholas of Cusa on Mind-Intellect: Interpretations of Idiota de mente-a New Idea of Mental Operation -- 1 General Approaches to the Problem -- 2 Approaches in Cusanus -- 3 The Conditions of the Production of the "Human World," the Mundus Humanus -- 4 Mental Operations in Cusanus -- 5 Consequences -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 9 Pilgrimage and Seeing the Icon in De visione Dei -- Chapter 10 De visione Dei as a Spiritual Exercise -- 1 Introduction: Spiritual Exercises and Language Games -- 2 Spiritual Exercises and Literary Genres in the Late Middle Ages -- 3 The Theme: the Ascent of the Image toward the Exemplar -- 4 The Procedure: Ascending in Learned Ignorance -- 5 The Structure of the Ascent: Methodological and Metaphysical Premises -- 6 The Ascent: from the Finite to the Absolute Infinite -- 7 Conclusion: the Pilgrim Figure -- Chapter 11 Through a Clock Darkly: The Time of the Eye in Nicholas of Cusa's De visione Dei -- 1 The Intersubjective Icon -- 2 Call and Response -- 3 The Clock in the Wall -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 12 Cusanus on the Perfection of Time in De docta ignorantia -- Chapter 13 How to Unlock the Infinite: Leaping Transumptively with Nicholas of Cusa -- 1 A Missed Technical Term in Cusan Scholarship: the Problem of Inconsistent Translations -- 2 The Comparative and the Transumptive: How to Distinguish the Uncertain from the Unknown -- 3 Thinking ex imagine and Preparing to Leap Transumptively -- 4 Transumptions and Analogies: How They Relate -- 5 Transumption: What Is It Really? -- 6 Final Thoughts -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 14 Vision in Renaissance Theology: Cusanus' Seeing the Divine through the Use of Perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Demonstrated Knowledge (scientia propter quid) and Mere Empirical Knowledge (scientia quia).

3 Limitations of Perspective and Vision as Discussed in Cusanus' De conjecturis (1442-1443) and the Icona Experiment in De visione Dei -- 4 "Omnivoyant Faces" in Ptolemy's Optics -- 5 Planetary Circular Motion in Grosseteste's De luce -- 6 Circular Motion in the Icona Experiment -- 7 Conclusion -- Part 3 Mystical Theology and Platonism in the Wake of Cusanus -- Chapter 15 Reflected Light between Cusanus and Ficino? -- 1 The Question of Direct Contact or Influence -- 2 Some Religious and Philosophical Affinities -- 3 Special Affinity: Metaphysics of Light and the Influence of Dionysius -- Chapter 16 The Cusan Roots of "Religious Concord" in Guillaume Postel's De orbis terrae concordia (1544) -- 1 Cusan Concordia -- 2 Postellian Concordia -- 3 Conclusion: Islam, Christ, and Concordia -- Chapter 17 Speculum vivum et videns: Speculation and Mirror in Nicholas of Cusa and Giordano Bruno -- 1 Nicholas of Cusa and the Mirror -- 2 The Mirror Metaphor in Giordano Bruno -- 3 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 18 Raymond Klibansky and the Platonic Tradition from Plato's Timaeus to Nicholas of Cusa -- 1 Raymond Klibansky -- 2 Kulturwissenschaft/Cultural Science -- 3 Weimar Platonism -- 4 Plato's Timaeus -- 5 Calcidius and Plato Latinus -- 6 Jewish Christian Platonism -- 7 The School of Chartres -- 8 Nicholas of Cusa -- 9 A Cusanus Renaissance -- 10 Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 19 Inside the Fold: Gilles Deleuze and the Christian Neoplatonist Tradition -- 1 Uses and Abuses of Folding -- 2 Unfolding Gilles Deleuze -- 2.1 Folding in the 1960s -- 2.2 Folding in the 1980s -- 3 Unfolding Nicholas of Cusa -- 3.1 Folding in the 1440s -- 3.2 Folding in the 1140s -- 4 Thinking within the Fold -- Afterword A Brief History of the American Cusanus Society -- 1 Major Publications Related to Sessions or Conferences sponsored by the American Cusanus Society.

Acknowledgement -- Persons Index -- Subjects Index -- Back Cover.