Engaging Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus
"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 fig...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2024
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Variorum collected studies series
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
John, Scotus Eriugena 810-877
/ Eckhart Meister 1260-1328
/ Nicholas of Cusa 1401-1464
/ Theology
/ Neoplatonism
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages NAA Systematic theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal (1401-1464)
B Eckhart Master (-1327) B Christian Philosophy B Philosophy, Medieval B Erigena, Johannes Scotus (approximately 810-approximately 877) |
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| Summary: | "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 practical, experiential issues and controversies. Eriugena revises Genesis' Adam and Eve narrative and makes sexual difference and overcoming it central to his Periphyseon. Eckhart's Annunciation sermons urge his hearers to give birth to God's son within their lives, and he develops a distinctive approach to pain and suffering. His radical preaching on the Eucharist and mystical union was judged heretical, but was later taken up by Nicholas of Cusa. Coins and banking became key symbols in Cusanus' exploration of humanity as created in God's image, and he used mechanical clocks in reflecting on time and eternity. 'Engagement' also describes these thinkers' reception of their predecessors and how later readers appropriated their works. Eriugena struggled with the legacy of Augustine and the Greek Fathers. Eckhart's theology of suffering provoked varied responses from his students Henry Suso and Johannes Tauler, and the twentieth-century therapist Ursula Fleming. Cusanus provides the volume's lynchpin as two articles analyse his reading of Eriugena and Eckhart, and a third discusses how he deftly countered Johannes Wenck's accusations of heresy. The book will be of interest to students of Medieval Philosophy, Theology, Spirituality and their place within Cultural History"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 1032443901 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4324/9781003371922 |