Masters of Learned Ignorance: Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus
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Author_Donald F. Duclow
Cardinal
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dialectical theology
Doctrinal History Middle Ages
Doctrinal Middle Ages
Eckhart
Eckhart (Meister)
Eckhart Meister 1260-1328
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Erigena
Geschichte 850-1450
God Name
Godsdienstfilosofie
History
Johannes (Scotus Eriugena)
Johannes Scotus
Johannes Scotus Eriugena 810-877
Kardinal 1401-1464
Medieval
medieval hermeneutics
Meister 1327
mystical philosophy
negative theology
Neo-Platonism
Neo-platonisme
Neoplatonism
Neuplatonismus
Nicholas
Nikolaus (von Kues)
of Cusa
Philosophie medievale
Philosophy
symbolic language in medieval mysticism
Theologie dogmatique Histoire 600-1500 (Moyen Age)
Theology
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- ISBN 9780860789956
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The medieval Christian West's most radical practitioners of a Neoplatonic, negative theology with a mystical focus are John Scottus Eriugena, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas Cusanus. All three mastered what Cusanus described as docta ignorantia: reflecting on their awareness that they could know neither God nor the human mind, they worked out endlessly varied attempts to express what cannot be known. Following Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, they sought to name God with symbolic expressions whose negation leads into mystical theology. For within their Neoplatonic dialectic, negation moves beyond reason and its finite distinctions to intellect, where opposites coincide and a vision of God's infinite unity becomes possible. In these papers Duclow views these thinkers' efforts through the lens of contemporary philosophical hermeneutics. He highlights the interplay of creativity, symbolic expression and language, interpretation and silence as Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus comment on the mind's work in naming God. This work itself becomes mystical theology when negation opens into a silent awareness of God's presence, from which the Word once again 'speaks' within the mind - and renews the process of creating and interpreting symbols. Comparative studies with Gregory of Nyssa, Pseudo-Dionysius, Anselm and Hadewijch suggest the book's wider implications for medieval philosophy and theology.
Donald F. Duclow is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Gwynedd-Mercy College, USA.
