Selected spiritual writings
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書誌事項
Selected spiritual writings
（The classics of Western spirituality）
Paulist Press, c1997
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
収録内容
- On learned ignorance (De docta ignorantia 1440)
- Dialogue on the hidden God (Dialogus de Deo abscondito 1444/1445)
- On seeking God (De quaerendo Deum 1445)
- On the vision of God (De visione Dei 1453)
- On the summit of contemplation (De apice theoriae 1464)
内容説明・目次
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: pbk ISBN 9780809104826
内容説明
For the first time in English in one volume are the spiritual writings of this outstanding 15th century intellectual figure whose work anticipated modern problems of ecumenicity and pluralism, empowerment and reconciliation, tolerance and individuality.
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ISBN 9780809136988
内容説明
"English-speaking Christians owe Paulist Press an enormous debt of gratitude for their continuing efforts to help us gain a deeper appreciation of our spiritual heritage."
Spiritual Life
Nicholas of Cusa: Selected Spiritual Writings
translated and introduced by H. Lawrence Bond
preface by Morimichi Watanabe
"This cloud, mist, darkness, or ignorance into which whoever seeks your face enters when one leaps beyond every knowledge and concept is such that below it your face cannot be found except veiled. But this very cloud reveals your face to be there beyond all veils...The denser, therefore, one knows the cloud to be the more one truly attains the invisible light in the cloud. I see, O Lord, that it is only in this way that the inaccessible light, the beauty, and the splendor of your face can be approached without veil."
From De visione Dei, c. 6
Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) is often called the outstanding intellectual figure of the fifteenth century as well as the principal gatekeeper between medieval and modern philosophy. This volume gives fresh attention to the theological and mystical dimensions of his thought. The introduction casts new and exciting light on the development of Cusa's theology of spirituality. The book also provides for the first time in one volume an English translation of Cusa's basic mystical corpus: On Learned Ignorance; On the Hidden God; On Seeking God; On the Vision of God; and On the Summit of Contemplation. Another unique feature is the annotated glossary of key Cusan terms that accompanies the texts.
Cusa's writings reveal a remarkable imaginative and gifted theologian who anticipated contemporary questions of ecumenicity and pluralism, empowerment and reconciliation, and tolerance and individuality. These translations particularly communicate to us his experience of a very large God that jostles us out of our parochialism.
For all his intellectual power, he never closes his thought into a system. He is a significator and a conjecturer. He keeps pointing beyond his own words and beyond even his prized formulae and labels, including "learned ignorance" and "coincidence of opposites." He persistently brings theology to the edge of incomprehensibility, beyond both positive and negative ways, beyond even paradox and the coincidence of opposites, to the realm of the Purely Absolute and Infinite, to the contemplation of Possibility Itself.
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