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| Word of God: The "Word of God" refers to sacred texts or divine revelations regarded as authoritative by a religious tradition. It signifies the fundamental teachings, commandments, or revelations believed to originate from a deity or hold profound spiritual significance within a faith, shaping beliefs, ethics, and practices. See also Religion, Religious belief, Theology, Christianity, Judaism, Islam._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Nicholas of Cusa on Word of God - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 438 Word of God/Nicholas of Cusa/Gadamer: The divine word creates the world, but not in a chronological sequence of creation thoughts and creation days. The human spirit, on the other hand, possesses the whole of its thoughts only in a temporal succession. Gadamer: Certainly this is not a purely temporal relationship, as we already saw in Thomas Aquinas. Cusa emphasizes this accordingly. It is the same as with the series of numbers, the generation of which is not actually a temporal event, but a movement of reason. Cusa sees the same movement of reason at work there, where the genera and species, as they fall under the word, are formed from the sensual and are unfolded into the individual terms and words Gadamer I 439 They too are entia rationis. Emanation/Nicholas of CusaVsNeoplatonism/Nicholas of CusaVsNeoplatonism/Gadamer: As platonic-newly platonic this talk of unfolding may sound, in truth the Cusanian has overcome the emanatist scheme of the New Platonic theory of explications in the decisive point. For he plays the Christian doctrine of the verbum against it.(1) >Emanation. Word/Cusanus: For him the word is no other being than the spirit, no diminished or attenuated appearance of the same. ChristianityVsPlatonism: Knowing this makes the Christian philosopher superior to the Platonists. Correspondingly, the multiplicity in which the human spirit unfolds is not a mere apostasy from true unity and is not a loss of its homeland. Complicatio/Cusanus: Rather, the finiteness of the human spirit, as much as it always remained related to the infinite unity of absolute being, had to find its positive legitimation. This is laid out in the concept of complicatio, and from this point the phenomenon of language also gains a new aspect. It is the human mind that simultaneously summarizes and unfolds. The unfolding into discursive multiplicity is not only one of the concepts, but extends into the linguistic realm. It is the multiplicity of possible names - depending on the diversity of languages - that still potentiates the conceptual differentiation. >Naming, >Denotation, >Words, >Translation, >Meaning, >Bible, >Bible Criticism. 1. Philosophi quidem de Verbo divino et maxlmo absoluto sufficienter instructi non erant . . . Non sunt igitur formae actu nisi in Verbo ipsum Verbum . . . De Doct. Ign. II, cap. IX._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Nicholas of Cusa Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28