Proceedings of a conference held in June 2007 at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem.
Of Learned Ignorance
This work consists of three books: the first deals with God (the Self Maximus considered absolutely), the second deals with the universe (Self maximum contracted in the Plurality of Things), and the third of Jesus Christ (Self up as ...
The medieval Christian West's most radical practitioners of a Neoplatonic, negative theology with a mystical focus are John Scottus Eriugena, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas Cusanus. All three mastered what Cusanus...
OF LEARNED IGNORANCE.
Nicholas of Cusa On Learned Ignorance: A Translation and an Appraisal of De Docta Ignorantia
Each finite line is infinitely rich in this sense. And it is this infinite richness that grounds the potentially unending divisibility of all finite lines. Cusanus explains as follows: although any given finite line is divisible, ...
Of Learned Ignorance
Of Learned Ignorance
... it is derigeur that one denounce Eurocentrism, colonialism, American imperialism, capitalist globalization, xenophobia, homophobia, Coca-Cola, Sam Walton, Ernest Hemingway, essentialism, guns, capital punishment, structural racism, ...
By being profoundly learned in our own ignorance and understanding that "unknowingness" is the only pathway before us.This volume contains two elemental writings from Nicholas of Cusa: Dialogue on the Hidden God and key excerpts from On ...