1st Edition
Masters of Learned Ignorance: Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus
By Donald F. Duclow
Copyright 2006
346 Pages
by
Routledge
346 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 described as docta ignorantia: reflecting on their awareness that they could know neither God nor the human mind, they worked out endlessly varied attempts to express what cannot be known.... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction: Pseudo-Dionysius, John Scotus Eriugena, Nicholas of Cusa: an approach to the hermeneutic of the divine names. Part 1 John Scottus Eriugena: Divine nothingness and self-creation in John Scotus Eriugena; Nature as speech and book in John Scotus Eriugena; Dialectic and christology in Eriugena's Periphyseon; Isaiah meets the Seraph: breaking ranks in Dionysius and Eriugena?; Denial or promise of the tree of life? - Eriugena, Augustine and Genesis 3:22b; Virgins in paradise: deification and exegesis in Periphyseon V, (co-authored with Paul A. Dietrick); Hell and damnation in Eriugena, (co-authored with Paul A. Dietrick). Part 2 Meister Eckhart: Hermeneutics and Meister Eckhart; Meister Eckhart on the Book of Wisdom: commentary and sermons; 'Whose image is this?' in Eckhart's Sermones; 'My suffering is God': Meister Eckhart's Book of Divine Consolation; The hungers of Hadewijch and Eckhart. Part 3 Nicholas of Cusa: Nicholas of Cusa's 'conjectural' neoplatonism; The dynamics of analogy in Nicholas of Cusa; The analogy of the word: Nicholas of Cusa's Theory of Language; Gregory of Nyssa and Nicholas of Cusa: infinity, anthropology and the Via Negativa; Anselm's Proslogion and Nicholas of Cusa's Wall of Paradise; Nicholas of Cusa in the margins of Meister Eckhart: codex Cusanus 21; Mystical theology and intellect in Nicholas of Cusa. Index.
Biography
Donald F. Duclow is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Gwynedd-Mercy College, USA.
