Conflict and Reconciliation

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

x, 230 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

German, English

Biographical note

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.

Readership

All those interested in intellectual history, history of philosophy and theology, metaphysics, political philosophy, philosophy of religion, church history, history of spirituality.

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

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