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The vision of God / Nicholas of Susa ; translated by Emma Gurney Salter, with an introduction by Evelyn Underhill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464.
- Standardized Title:
- De visione Dei. English
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Mysticism--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Mysticism.
- History.
- Mysticism--Middle Ages.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 130 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : J.M. Dent & Sons ; New York : E.P. Dutton, 1928.
- Contents:
- Introduction by Evelyn Underhill
- Biographical note by the translator
- The vision of God, or the icon, the book of the most reverend father, the Lord Nicholas of Cusa. That the perfection of the image in verified of God the supremely perfect
- That absolute sight embraceth all modes of seeing
- That the attributes of God are not really different
- That the gaze of God is called providence, grace, and life eternal
- That sight is tasting, seeking, pitying, and acting
- Of seeing face to face
- What is the fruit of seeing face to face and how it is to be had
- That the gaze of God is itself the loving, effecting, reading, and possessing of all things in itself
- That the gaze of God is alike universal and particular, and what is the way thereunto
- How God is seen beyond the coincidence of contradictories and how seeing is being
- How in God is seen succession without succession
- That where the invisible is seen the uncreated is created
- That God is seen to be absolute infinity
- How God enfoldeth all things without otherness
- How actual infinity is unity, wherein the figure is truth
- How that, unless God were infinite, he would not be the end of desire
- How God, unless he were one and three, could not be perfectly seen
- How God, unless he were a trinity, could not be bliss
- How Jesus is the union of God and man
- How Jesus is understood to be the union of the divine nature and the human nature
- That bliss is not possible without Jesus
- How Jesus seeth and how he hath worked
- How that when Jesus died his union with life persisted
- How Jesus is the word of life
- How Jesus is the consummation.
- Notes:
- At head of title: Nicholas of Cusa.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nicholas, of Cusa, Cardinal, 1401-1464. Vision of God.
- OCLC:
- 7073949
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