Conflict and Reconciliation : Perspectives on Nicolas of Cusa.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I: CUSANUS AND THE SPIRIT OF THE DEVOTIO MODERNA -- Reden unter Brüdern. Diskurstheoretische Bedingungen der Konkordanz bei Nikolaus von Kues -- Cusanus und die Devotio Moderna -- Ut pia testatoris voluntas observetur. Die Stiftung der bursa cusana zu Deventer -- PART II: CUSANUS AND CONCILIARISM -- Nicholas of Cusa on Harmony, Concordance, Consensus and Acceptance as Categories of Reform in the Church, in De concordantia catholica -- Cusanus, Cesarini and the Crisis of Conciliarism -- PART III: ON RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS AND TOLERANCE -- Tolerance and Trinity -- Nicholas of Cusa and the Jews -- Religiöse und kulturelle Pluralität als Konfliktursache bei Nikolaus von Kues -- The Idea of Truth as the Basis for Religious Tolerance According to Nicholas of Cusa with Comparisons to Thomas Aquinas -- PART IV: THEOLOGY BETWEEN CONFLICT AND RECONCILIATION -- Divine Omnipotence in the View of Nicholas of Cusa -- The Possibilities of God. A Theological Response to Frans Maas' Thesis on Divine Omnipotence in the Thought of Nicholas of Cusa -- The meaning of apology and reconciliation for an apophatic theology -- PART V: FREEDOM AND RECONCILIATION -- Spirit, Mind and Freedom -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

This book offers historical, philosophical and theological studies on the meaning of conflicts in life and thinking of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) and deals with his attempts to develop a model for peace and tolerance.

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