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Scholarship has recognized fifteenth-century speculative thinker Nicholas of Cusa for his early contributions to conciliar theory, but not his later ecclesiastical career as cardinal, residential bishop, preacher, and reformer. Richard Serina shows that, as bishop in the Tyrolese diocese of Brixen from 1452 to 1458, and later as resident cardinal in Rome, Nicolas of Cusa left a testament to his view of reform in the sermons he preached to monks, clergy, and laity. These 171 sermons, in addition to his Reformatio generalis of 1459, reflect an intellectual coming to terms with the challenge of reform in the late medieval church, and in response creatively incorporating metaphysics, mystical theology, ecclesiology, and personal renewal into his preaching of reform.
Price: $189.00
Pages: 258
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions
Publication Date:
25 August 2016
ISBN: 9789004321724
Format: Hardcover
“Nicholas of Cusa’s Brixen Sermons and Late Medieval Church Reform is a well-written and accessible work that will not only be of great use to Cusanus specialists, but enjoyed by anyone interested in a lively account of some of the most colorful episodes in fifteenth-century social and religious history.”
Meredith Ziebart. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 1589-1590.
Meredith Ziebart. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 1589-1590.
Richard J. Serina, Jr., Ph.D. (2014), Concordia Seminary-St. Louis, teaches religion at Concordia College-New York. He writes on Nicholas of Cusa, church reform and ecclesiology in the late Middle Ages and Reformation, and medieval backgrounds to the Reformation.