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On Faith, Rationality, and the Other in the Late Middle Ages - a Study of Nicholas of Cusa's Manuductive Approach to Islam (Microfilm)
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On Faith, Rationality, and the Other in the Late Middle Ages - a Study of Nicholas of Cusa's Manuductive Approach to Islam (Microfilm)
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Description: On Faith, Rationality, and the Other in the Late
Middle Ages is an investigation of Nicholas of Cusa that seeks a
deeper understanding of this important medieval intellectual and
his importance for us today. One of Gergely Bakos's primary aims in
this study is to understand Nicholas of Cusa's important and
underexamined dimensions of his approach to dialogue with Islam.
The framework and the methodology that informs this investigation
was inspired by the late Professor Jos Decorte (1954-2001), a
Flemish philosopher and mediaevalist at the Catholic University of
Leuven in Belgium. Bakos carefully exposits his method of
approaching medieval thought (Part One) and then applies and tests
this method in practice (Part Two). The most extensive part of this
study offers a sketch of the historical background of Nicholas's
dialogue with Islam and investigates what possibilities this
approach offers. All of this is placed in dialogue with two other
mediaeval approaches to Islam (Thomas Aquinas and Ramon Lull). The
nal chapters discuss Nicholas of Cusa's project from a perspective
offered by his mystical theology. The book culminates in an
exploration of the possibilities of Nicholas of Cusa's approach by
testing the framework of the study. Finally, the author evaluates
the application of his own approach (Part Three). The study
ultimately has two purposes: to contribute to a better
understanding of Nicholas of Cusa's thought, on the one hand, and,
on the other, to test a particular methodology and interpretative
framework for the understanding of mediaeval culture. Endorsements:
""This book is a gem. Those who already love the Middle Ages are in
for a treat . . . Those less familiar with the Middle Ages will
learn enormously. If Europe has a problem to wrestle with, it is
not how to sustain her wealth and prestige, but how to think about,
and live properly, her contacts with Islam. As Bakos demonstrates,
Nicholas of Cusa may have lived long ago, but he is no mean guide
for the times."" --G. J. McAleer Professor of Philosophy Loyola
University, Maryland ""This book dispels the default position that
Cusanus would have forced the Christian agenda down upon everyone
else. It turns out, rather, that the main subject of the manuductio
is the pious believer himself. As long as religion faces the
absolute, this absolute faces every human being."" --From the
Foreword by Paul Richard Blum About the Contributor(s): Gergely T.
Bakos is a Benedictine monk holding the Chair of Philosophy at the
Sapientia Theological School of Religious Orders in Budapest,
Hungary.
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