The Vision of God
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The Vision of God

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The Vision of God

About this book

Known for his deeply mystical writings about Christianity, Nicholas of Cusa wrote this, his most popular work, against a backdrop of widespread Church corruption. God, he believed, is found in all things, and thus cannot be perceived by man's senses and intellect alone. The path to ultimate knowledge, then, begins in recognizing our own ignorance. Deeply influenced by Saint Augustine, Nicholas mixes the metaphysical with the personal to create a deeply felt work, first published in 1453, designed to restore faith in even the most jaded.

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Publisher
Cosimo Classics
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781616409890
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Mysticism

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Biographical Note
  3. The Vision of God or The Icon
  4. Preface
  5. Chapter I That the Perfection of the Image is Verified of God the Supremely Perfect
  6. Chapter II That Absolute Sight embraceth All Modes of Seeing
  7. Chapter III That the Attributes of God are Not Really Different
  8. Chapter IV That the Gaze of God is Called Providence, Grace, and Life Eternal
  9. Chapter V That Sight is Tasting, Seeking, Pitying, and Acting1
  10. Chapter VI Of Seeing Face to Face
  11. Chapter VII What is the Fruit of Seeing Face to Face and How It is to be Had
  12. Chapter VIII That the gaze of God is Itself the Loving, Effecting, Reading, and Possessing of All Things in Itself
  13. Chapter IX How the Gaze of God is Alike Universal and Particular, and What is the way Thereunto
  14. Chapter X How God is Seen Beyond the Coincidence of Contradictories and How Seeing is Being
  15. Chapter XI How in God is Seen Succession Without Succession
  16. Chapter XII That Where the Invisible is Seen The Uncreated is Created
  17. Chapter XIII That God is Seen to be Absolute Infinity
  18. Chapter XIV How God Enfoldeth All Things Without Otherness
  19. Chapter XV How Actual Infinity is Unity, Wherein the Figure is Truth
  20. Chapter XVI How That, Unless God Were Infinite, He Would not be the End of Desire
  21. Chapter XVII How God, Unless He Were One and Three, Could not be Perfectly Seen
  22. Chapter XVIII How God, Unless He Were a Trinity, Could not be Bliss
  23. Chapter XIX How Jesus is the Union of God and Man
  24. Chapter XX How Jesus is Understood to be the Union of the Divine Nature and the Human Nature
  25. Chapter XXI That Bliss is not Possible Without Jesus
  26. Chapter XXII How Jesus Seeth and How He Hath Worked
  27. Chapter XXIII How that when Jesus Died his Union with Life Persisted
  28. Chapter XXIV How Jesus is the Word of Life
  29. Chapter XXV How Jesus is the Consummation

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