The study investigates the expectations various groups in late medieval German society held of their parish priests and how these expectations were mediated through specific relationships.
Voting in the Medieval Papacy and Religious Orders
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Medieval theologians no doubt believed that God’s word was handed down from above; but they well knew that they often had to decide among rival human interpretations of it.
Nicholas of Cusa’s Intellectual Relationship to Anselm of Canterbury
July 31, 2011 By
Nicholas of Cusa’s Intellectual Relationship to Anselm of Canterbury Hopkins, Jasper The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C. (2006) Abstract During this sexcentenary of the birth of Nicholas of Cusa, there is an almost ineluctable temptation to super-accentuate Cusa’s modernity—to recall approvingly, for example, that the Neokantian Ernst Cassirer not only designated Cusa “the […]
The Church in the Light of Learned Ignorance
September 29, 2010 By
The Church in the Light of Learned Ignorance Izbicki, Thomas M. Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 3 (1993) Abstract The years between 1436 and 1442 were vital ones in the life and thought of Nicholas of Cusa, who entered that period as the leading conciliar theorist of his generation and emerged from it as a […]
Nicholas Cusanus as Prince-Bishop of Brixen (1450-64)
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