1st Edition

Engaging Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus

By Donald F. Duclow Copyright 2024
190 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Engaging Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus contains two new essays and nine others published between 2005 and 2019. The essays explore Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus as bold thinkers deeply engaged with their times and culture. John Scottus Eriugena, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa are key figures in the medieval Christian Neoplatonic tradition. This book focuses on their engagement with... Read more

I – The Sleep of Adam, the Making of Eve: Sin and Creation in Eriugena

II – Coinciding in the Margins: Cusanus Glosses Eriugena

III – Meister Eckhart: Preaching the Annunciation

IV – Theologies of Suffering: Eckhart, Henry Suso and Ursula Fleming

V – Johannes Tauler: Preaching the Exaltation of the Cross

VI – Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa: Eucharist and Mystical Transformation

VII – "Our Substance is God’s Coin": Nicholas of Cusa on Minting, Defiling and Restoring the Imago Dei

VIII – Cusanus, Wenck and the Art of the Insult

IX – Cusanus’ Clock: Time and Eternity in De visione Dei

X – "Eternal Time": Nicholas of Cusa on World, Time and Eternity

XI – Cusanus’ Philosophical Testament: De venatione sapientiae (The Hunt of Wisdom) (1462)

Biography

Donald F. Duclow studied English Literature and Philosophy at DePaul University and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in 1974. He is Professor Emeritus at Gwynedd Mercy University, where he taught Philosophy from 1974 to 2009. He has published widely on the medieval Christian Neoplatonic tradition, and his book Masters of Learned Ignorance: Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus (2006) includes 20 of his articles. He remains active in academic societies, especially the American Cusanus Society and the Renaissance Society of America. He and his wife Geraldine live in Philadelphia.