Nicholas of Cusa and the Renaissance

by F. Edward Cranz

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Published March 2000 by Variorum .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Biography: general,
• Christianity,
• Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600,
• c 1000 CE to c 1500,
• History,
• History: World,
• Germany,
• Renaissance,
• 1401-1464,
• Nicholas,,
• Philosophy, Renaissance,
• of Cusa, Cardinal,

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Edition Notes

Series	Variorum Collected Studies Series, Cs 654
Contributions	Thomas M. Izbicki (Editor), Gerald Christianson (Editor)
The Physical Object
Format	Hardcover
Number of Pages	224
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL11661549M
ISBN 10	0860788016
ISBN 10	9780860788010

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Nicholas of Cusa () was active during the Renaissance, developing adventurous ideas even while serving as a churchman. The religious issues with which he engaged – spiritual, apocalyptic and institutional – were to play out in the : Thomas M. Izbicki, Jason Aleksander, Donald F. Duclow.   Nicholas of Cusa, also known as Nicolaus Cusanus, Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Krebs, was a man who wasn't afraid of speaking his mind and voice opinions that were unorthodox at that time. Not only did he opposed Aristotle's views that Earth centered Universe, but he also argued for the existence of extraterrestrials. Nicholas of Cusa was a priest who lived in the 15th century. You might.

NICHOLAS OF CUSA ( – ). The theologian, philosopher, and mathematician Nicholas of Cusa, also known as Nicholas Kryfts or Krebs, was born at Kues on the Moselle River between Trier and attending the school of the Brothers of the Common Life in Deventer, Holland, he studied philosophy at Heidelberg (), canon law at Padua ( – ), and theology at Cologne (). Nicholas of Cusa, also referred to as Nicholas of Kues and Nicolaus Cusanus, was a cardinal, mathematician, scholar, experimental scientist, and influential philosopher who stressed the incomplete nature of man’s knowledge of God and of the universe.   Editorial Reviews. John Milbank-- University of Nottingham "The Analogical Turn by Johannes Hoff for the first time locates Nicholas of Cusa without anachronism as a post-nominalist realist, who reworked the inherited analogical vision of Christian theology in a simultaneously late Gothic and Renaissance manner. As Hoff explains, this idiom offers us a new way forward todayAuthor: Johannes Hoff.

The paper will also discuss how Nicholas of Cusa’s view of the question of providence might shed light on Renaissance philosophy’s contribution in the historical transition in Western philosophy from an overtly theological or eschatological understanding of historical time . The writings of theologians Thierry of Chartres (d. ) and Nicholas of Cusa (d. ) represent a lost history of momentous encounters between Christianity and Pythagorean ideas before the Renaissance. Their robust Christian Neopythagoreanism reconceived the Trinity and the Incarnation within the framework of Greek number theory, challenging our contemporary assumptions about the relation. Free Online Library: Nicholas of Cusa and His Age: Intellect and Spirituality. Essays Dedicated to the Memory of F. Edward Cranz, Thomas P. McTighe and Charles Trinkaus.(Reviews, Book Review) by "Renaissance Quarterly"; Humanities, general Literature, writing, book reviews Books Book reviews.