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Cusanus

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Cusanus [kjuːˈseɪnəs]
n
(Biographies) Nicholas. See Nicholas of Cusa


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[4] What is striking about these mystical traditions is this singular fact: the principal interest here is not, as with the moderns, on love as relationality nor, as with the pre-moderns on image and Trinity, but often in radically apophatic positions like that of Pseudo-Dionysius, Scotus Eriugena, Marguerite Porete, Meister Eckhart, Cusanus.
Nicolas de Cuse et L'Orient" by Jean-Michel Counet compares Cusanus and a contemporary Orthodox theologian, Gregory Palamas, on issues relating to negative theology and revelation and finds Cusanus, as opposed to Palamas, to be an expression of humanistic directions in Christian thought.
 
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