Masters of Learned Ignorance

Download or read book Masters of Learned Ignorance written by Donald F. Duclow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these papers Duclow views the thought of Eriugena, Eckhart and Cusanus through the lens of contemporary philosophical hermeneutics. He highlights the interplay of creativity, symbolic expression and language, interpretation and silence as they comment on the mind's work in naming God. This work itself becomes mystical theology when negation opens into a silent awareness of God's presence, from which the Word once again 'speaks' within the mind. Comparative studies with Gregory of Nyssa, Pseudo-Dionysius, Anselm and Hadewijch suggest the book's wider implications for medieval philosophy and theology.