Conflict and Reconciliation

Perspectives on Nicolas of Cusa
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13826-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, Band 126, 230 Seiten, Gewicht: 568 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This book deals with one of the main themes in the life and thinking of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), the experience of conflict and the need to realise reconciliation and tolerance. The essays in this volume are discussing not only the various conflicts in which this important philosopher, theologian, mathematician and politician of the 15th century was involved, but also try to interpret the main speculative themes in his philosophical and theological works in the perspective of his historical experiences. As such, the book also delivers a contribution to a better understanding of intellectual, religious and cultural life of the 15th Century as an era of transition between late Middle Ages and Early Modernity.

Contributors include: Inigo Bocken, Tilman Borsche, Gerald Christianson, Jean-Michel Counet, Jos Decorte (†), Wilhelm Dupré, Stephan van Erp, Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen, William Hoye, Thomas Izbicki, Frans Maas, Markus Riedenauer, Nikolaus Staubach, and Anton G. Weiler.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bocken, Inigo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Theologenbiographien, Religiöse Führer
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors

Introduction

PART I. CUSANUS AND THE SPIRIT OF THE DEVOTIO MODERNA
1. Reden unter Brüdern. Diskurstheoretische Bedingungen der Konkordanz bei Nikolaus von Kues, Tilman Borsche
2. Cusanus und die Devotio Moderna, Nikolaus Staubach
3. Ut pia testatoris voluntas observetur. Die Stiftung der bursa cusana zu Deventer, Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen

PART II. CUSANUS AND CONCILIARISM
4. Nicholas of Cusa on Harmony, Concordance, Consensus and Acceptance as Categories of Reform in the Church, in De concordantia catholica, Anton G. Weiler
5. Cusanus, Cesarini and the Crisis of Conciliarism, Gerald Christianson

PART III. ON RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS AND TOLERANCE
6. Tolerance and Trinity, Jos Decorte (†)
7. Nicholas of Cusa and the Jews, Thomas Izbicki
8. Religiöse und kulturelle Pluralität als Konfliktursache bei Nikolaus von Kues, Markus Riedenauer
9. The Idea of Truth as the Basis for Religious Tolerance According to Nicholas of Cusa with Comparisons to Thomas Aquinas, William Hoye

PART IV. THEOLOGY BETWEEN CONFLICT AND RECONCILIATION
10. Divine Omnipotence in the View of Nicholas of Cusa, Frans Maas
11. The Possibilities of God. A Theological Response to Frans Maas’ Thesis on Divine Omnipotence in the Thought of Nicholas of Cusa, Stephan van Erp
12. The meaning of apology and reconciliation for an apophatic theology, Jean-Michel Counet

PART V. FREEDOM AND RECONCILIATION
13. Spirit, Mind and Freedom, Wilhelm Dupré

Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Inigo Bocken, Ph.D. (1997), University of Nijmegen, is Coordinating Secretary of the Centre for Cusanus Studies Nijmegen and Research Fellow at the Centre for Ethics, University of Nijmegen. He has published extensively on philosophy of religion, political philosophy and ethics in Early Modernity and on Nicholas of Cusa.