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Tables of Contents for Nicholas of Cusa
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
FOREWORD
xi
2
PREFACE
xiii
6
ABBREVIATIONS
xix
INTRODUCTION
3
1
I. LIFE AND TIMES
3
10
II. IMPORTANCE
13
6
III. THE COINCIDENCE OF OPPOSITES: ON LEARNED IGNORANCE
19
17
On Learned Ignorance and Cusa's Earliest Use of the Coincidence of Opposites
21
6
Book One: God as Absolute Maximum
23
1
Book Two: The World as Contracted Maximum
23
1
Book Three: Christ as Absolute and Contracted Maximum
24
3
Theological Application of Coincidence
27
9
A Proper Consideration
27
5
A Proper Application
32
14
IV. THE SPIRITUALITY OF IGNORANCE: DIALOGUE ON THE HIDDEN GOD AND ON SEEKING GOD
36
7
Ignorance and the Knowledge of God in Dialogue on the Hidden God
37
2
Ignorance and the Spirituality of Seeing in On Seeking God
39
4
V. MYSTICAL THEOLOGY AND COINCIDENCE: ON THE VISION OF GOD
43
13
Reappropriation of Coincidence in On the Vision of God
44
4
Application of Coincidence to Mystical Theology
48
8
The Evocative Function
49
1
The Descriptive Function
50
6
VI. CONTEMPLATION AND THEOLOGY: ON THE SUMMIT OF CONTEMPLATION
56
15
Sight as Gift
61
2
Sight as Ascent
63
4
Sight as Fulfillment
67
3
A Note About Capitalization of Terms
70
1
NOTES TO INTRODUCTION
71
14
ON LEARNED IGNORANCE
85
122
DIALOGUE ON THE HIDDEN GOD
207
8
ON SEEKING GOD
215
18
ON THE VISION OF GOD
233
58
ON THE SUMMIT OF CONTEMPLATION
291
13
NOTES TO TEXTS
304
31
A BRIEF GLOSSARY OF CUSAN TERMS
335
6
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
341
16
INDEXES
357