God as li Non-Aliud: : Nicholas of Cusa's Unique Designation for God
Nicholas reprises his thinking about God and creatures in his De li Non-Aliud (1461), a work that echoes his earlier writings with an original name for God. Part I of the article reviews the puzzling initial chapter of this dialogue. Part II explains how using the phrase the Not-Other (li Non-Al...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn State Univ. Press
[2015]
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Journal of medieval religious cultures
Year: 2015, Volume: 41, Issue: 1, Pages: 24-40 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAF Church history 1300-1500; late Middle Ages NBC Doctrine of God NBD Doctrine of Creation VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Nicholas reprises his thinking about God and creatures in his De li Non-Aliud (1461), a work that echoes his earlier writings with an original name for God. Part I of the article reviews the puzzling initial chapter of this dialogue. Part II explains how using the phrase the Not-Other (li Non-Aliud) to refer to God provides the dialectical basis for thinking the paradoxical relationship of the divine One to the created others. Part III takes up Nicholas's visual analogies that suggest how not other as a designation for God recalls some of his earlier ideas in The Vision of God/De visione Dei. Part IV makes Nicholas's reliance on Dionysius and Proclus explicit in pointing to a God beyond being and intelligibility. The whole dialogue thus explains how to frame God's oneness dialectically in order to do justice to the relation of infinite God and finite creatures. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-9650 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of medieval religious cultures
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jmedirelicult.41.1.0024 |