PROLEGOMENA TO NICHOLAS OF CUSA’S CONCEPTION OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF FAITH TO REASON (JASPER HOPKINS, 1996)

Share This

Is there any such thing as the Cusan view of the relationship between faith and reason? That is, does Nicholas present us with clear concepts of fides and ratio and with a unique and consistent doctrine regarding their interconnection? If he does not, then the task before us is surely an impossible one: viz., the task of finding, describing, and setting in perspective a doctrine that never at all existed. For even with spectacles made of beryl stone or through the looking glass of Lewis Carroll, we could not descry the totally nonexistent.

Read more

Leave a Comment