Nicolaus Cusanus on Faith and the Intellect : a Case Study in 15th-Century Fides-Ratio Controversy.
In Edited byNicolaus Cusanus on Faith and the Intellect: A Case Study in 15th-Century Fides-Ratio ControversyEdited by, K.M. Ziebart presents an account of the Cusan epistemology as a fascinating late-medieval attempt to definitively harmonize faith and reason.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Methodological Considerations & Organization of Study; Nicolaus Cusanus and fides-ratio Dialectic in the Fifteenth Century; Representations of Faith and Reason in Cusan Thought and the Appearance of a Problem; Mysteria fidei: Faith and Reason in Book III of De docta ignorantia; Faith and Reason in the Early Sermons; Previous Scholarship on the Relationship of Faith and Reason in Cusan Thought; Part One Faith and Reason in the Debates and Controversies Surrounding the Reception of Cusanus' Works by his Contemporaries.
- Chapter One The Cusanus-Wenck DebateWenck and Conciliarism: The Political Motives Behind the Debate; Wenck's Opposition to Lay Mysticism; John of Gelnhausen and the Origin of the Debate; Wenck's Response to De docta ignorantia: The De ignota litteratura; Eckhardian/Beghardian "heresy" in De docta ignorantia; Destruction of the Aristotelian Philosophy; De ignota litteratura as a Document in the History of Fifteenth-Century Sectarian Religious Controversy; Cusanus' Response to Johannes Wenck: The Apologia doctae ignorantiae and Idiota Treatises; The Apologia doctae ignorantiae.
- The Idiota Dialogues as Further ResponseIdiota de sapientia; Idiota de mente; Chapter 1 Conclusion: The Cusanus-Wenck Debate, Apologia, and Idiota Treatises; Chapter Two The Tegernsee Debate; Background of the Debate; The University of Vienna and Reform in Austria; Conciliarism in Aggsbach's Criticism; Reception of Cusanus' Works in the Monasteries, and the Development of the Debate; Vincent's Tractate Against Cusanus: the Impugnatorium laudatorii doctae ignorantiae; Cusanus' De visione Dei; Chapter 2 Conclusion: Evaluating the Tegernsee Debate.
- Conclusion to Part I: Cusanus' Debates with Wenck and Aggsbach against the Background of Fifteenth-century Theological ControversyPart Two Beyond the Debates: Faith and Reason as Mirrored in Cusanus' Philosophy and Theology; Chapter Three The Philosopher and the Idiot: The Role of Aristotelian Philosophy in the Philosophy and Theology of Cusanus; Previous Views of Cusanus' Relationship to Aristotle; References to Aristotle in Cusanus; References to Aristotle in the Sermons; References in the Sermons to the Ethics; References in the Sermons to the Metaphysics.
