Two Sessions on Nicholas of Cusa and Protestant Thought at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in New Orleans 16-19, 2014

Nicholas of Cusa and Protestant Thought (I)

Friday 8:30-10:00, Studio 6

Sponsor: Centre for Research on Religion (CREOR), McGill University
Organizer: Eric M. Parker, McGill University & Joshua Hollmann, Concordia College Chair: Torrance
Kirby, McGill University

Nicholas of Cusa and Martin Luther on Christ and the Coincidence of Opposites Joshua Hollmann
(Concordia College)

Lineages of Papal Reform: Nicholas of Cusa’s Reformatio generalis (1459) and Luther’s View of the
Papacy during the Early Indulgence Controversy (1517-19)
Richard Serina (Concordia Seminary)

As the Blind Discern Color: Nicholas of Cusa and John Calvin on the Hiddenness of God
Kirk Essary (Florida State University)

Nicholas of Cusa in Protestant Thought (II)

Friday 10:30-12:00, Studio 6

Sponsor: Centre for Research on Religion (CREOR), McGill University
Organizer: Eric M. Parker, McGill University & Joshua Hollmann, Concordia College Chair: Torrance
Kirby, McGill University

The Influence of Nicholas of Cusa in the Philosophical Theology of Thomas Jackson (1579-1640)
Peter James Bryson (McGill University)

‘Squaring the Circle’: Cusan Metaphysics and the Pansophic Vision of Jan Amos Comenius (1592-1670)
Simon Burton (University of Warsaw)

‘Reason re-enthroned in her Majestick Seat’: Religion and Reason in Nicholas of Cusa and the
Cambridge Platonists (ca. 1644-1688)
Eric Parker (McGill University)

New book on Cusanus and Islam

Congratulations to ACS members Ian Levy, Rita George-Tvrtković, and Donald Duclow for their recently published volume on Cusanus and Islam:

• Nicholas of Cusa and Islam: Polemic and Dialogue in the Late Middle Ages (Brill, 2014).

New book by Charles Carman

Congratulations to Charles H. Carman (University of Buffalo) on the publication of his new book:

Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus: Towards an Epistemology of Vision for Italian Renaissance Art and Culture (Ashgate 2014).

New Cusanus series from Mimesis

Prof. Gianluca Cuozzo (Turin) is editing a new series of books related to Cusanus studies with the renowned Italian publishing house, Mimesis. The series, Bibliotheca Cusana, includes two titles to date:

• Antonio Dall'igna and Damiano Roberi, eds., Cusano e Leibniz. Prospettive filosofiche (2013)
• Gianluca Cuozzo, Mystice videre. Esperienza religiosa e pensiero speculativo in Cusano (2012)

Radio program on Nicholas of Cusa

Deutschlandfunk (DLF) recently aired an entertaining two-part radio program on Nicholas's life and works.

• Part 1: Das Studium in Padua und die Anfänge des Humanismus
• Part 2: Das belehrte Nichtwissen und das unendliche Weltall

CFP for Contributions to a Panel on Cusanus and the Hussites

Sponsored by the American Cusanus Society

The 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)

May 14-17, 2015

The American Cusanus Society will sponsor a session entitled: Cusanus and the Hussites. The session commemorates the sixth centennial of the condemnation and burning of Jan Hus at the Council of Constance (burned July 6, 1415). Papers are solicited on the trial of Hus and his posthumous reputation, the negotiations of the Council of Basel with the Hussites, and the engagement of Nicholas of Cusa with these issues, as participant in the council and as papal legate for Germany.

Please send a title and a brief abstract to the attention of:

Dr. Thomas Izbicki

tizbicki@rci.rutgers.edu

Treasurer of the American Cusanus Society