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.

List of contents

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)

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Donald F. Duclow, Duclow Donald F.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032443928
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244392-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Variorum Collected Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; HISTORY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, Christianity, History of Religion, Medieval History, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy