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Nicholas of Cusa - Selected Spiritual Writings (Paperback)
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"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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