Nicholas of Cusa and His Age: Intellect and Spirituality

Essays Dedicated to the Memory of F. Edward Cranz, Thomas P. McTighe and Charles Trinkaus
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-04-12557-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 105, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 662 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

This volume commemorates the 6th centennial of the birth of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), a Renaissance polymath whose interests included law, politics, metaphysics, epistemology, theology, mysticism and relations between Christians and non-Christian peoples. The contributors to this volume reflect Cusanus' multiple interests; and, by doing so they commemorate three deceased luminaries of the American Cusanus Society: F. Edward Cranz, Thomas P. McTighe and Charles Trinkaus.

Contributors include: Christopher M. Bellitto, H. Lawrence Bond, Elizabeth Brient, Louis Dupré, Wilhelm Dupré, Walter Andreas Euler, Lawrence Hundersmarck, Thomas M. Izbicki, Dennis D. Martin, Yelena Matusevich, Bernard McGinn, Clyde Lee Miller, Thomas E. Morrissey, Brian A. Pavlac, and Morimichi Watanabe.

Publications by Charles Trinkaus:

• Edited by C. Trinkaus and H.A. Oberman, The pursuit of holiness in late medieval and renaissance religion, ISBN: 978 90 04 03791 5 (Out of print)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Izbicki, Thomas M

Bellitto, Christopher M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgement, Christopher M. Bellitto & Thomas M. Izbicki
Preface, Morimichi Watanabe
Guide to Cusanus Works Cited
Abbreviations

PART I. CUSANUS IN CONTEXT
1. Lines of Convergence: Some Remarks on Spirit and Mind in the Work of Nicholas of Cusa, Wilhelm Dupré
2. Prolegomena to Nicholas of Cusa's Theory of Religious Symbols, Louis Dupré
3. Behind the Scene: The Carthusian Presence in Late Medieval Spirituality, Dennis D. Martin
4. Canonists in Crises ca. 1400-1450: Pisa, Constance, Basel, Thomas E. Morrissey

PART II. CUSANUS: PREACHER, BISHOP, THEOLOGIAN
5. Nicholas of Cusa's Early Sermons on the Incarnation: an Early Renaissance Philosopher-Theologian as Preacher, Lawrence Hundersmarck & Thomas M. Izbicki
6. Proclamation of Christ in Selected Sermons from Cusanus' Brixen Period, Walter Andreas Euler
7. Meister Eckhart in Nicholas of Cusa’s 1456 Sermon: Ubi est qui natus est rex Iudeorum?, Clyde Lee Miller
8. Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa on the "Where" of God, Elizabeth Brient
9. Maximum Contractum et Absolutum: The Motive for the Incarnation in Nicholas of Cusanus and his Predecessors, Bernard McGinn
10. The “Icon” and the “Iconic Text” in Nicholas of Cusa’s De Visione Dei, H. Lawrence Bond
11. The Curse of Cusanus: Excommunication in Fifteenth Century Germany, Brian A. Pavlac

PART III. CUSANUS' LEGACY
12. St. Nicholas Hospital at Kues as a Spiritual Legacy of Nicholas of Cusa, Morimichi Watanabe
13. Jean Gerson (1363-1429), Nicolas of Cusa (1401-1464), Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples (1450-1537): The Continuity of Ideas, Yelena Matusevich

Appendices
Bibliography, Thomas M. Izbicki
Works by Nicholas of Cusa Cited
Index of Persons
Index of Places
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas M. Izbicki, Ph.D. (1973) in Medieval History, Cornell University, is Collection Development Co-ordinator at the Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University. He has written extensively on medieval papalism and on Nicholas of Cusa. His books include Protector of the Faith: Cardinal Johannes de Terrecremata and the Defense of the InstitutionaI Church (Catholic University of America Press, 1981) and Friars and Jurists: Selected Studies (Keip Verlag, 1997).
Christopher M. Bellitto, Ph.D. (1997) in History, Fordham University, is Academic Editor of Paulist Press. He has written on medieval reform and conciliarism for scholarly journals. His books include Nicolas de Clamanges: Spirituality, Personal Reform, and Pastoral Renewal on the Eve of the Reformations (Catholic University of America Press, 2001) and Renewing Christianity: A History of Church Reform from Day One to Vatican II (Paulist Press, 2001).
Thomas Izbicki and Christopher Belitto have also co-edited Reform and Renewal in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Studies in Honor of Louis Pascoe, S.J. (Brill, 2000).