The Mystical Self between Annihilation and Deification: Cusanus as Interpreter of Dionysius the Areopagite

In De visione Dei, Nicholas of Cusa reinterprets Dionysian mystical theology in a way that both preserves and transforms its apophatic core. God remains ineffable, a superluminous darkness beyond all conceptual grasp. Yet this divine unknowability does not entail the annihilation of the self, as in...

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Main Author: Colizzi, Paolo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2025
In: Studies in spirituality
Year: 2025, Volume: 34, Pages: 75-94
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