Calls for reformation were widespread across the medieval Roman Catholic Church, but few were as nuanced or philosophically rich as the lifelong work of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464). Cusa centralized the coincidentia oppositorum, the coincidence of opposites, in our knowledge of God and the mystical institution of the Church. In his book, Michael R. Kearney traces Cusa's historical impact on philosophy of communication and communication ethics with an eye toward the health of institutions in a postmodern moment of cynicism and decline. Cusa loved the church and fought passionately for its reform, energized by the "clouded vision" of a God who is beyond opposites. This champion of dialogic reformation offers churches and communities an unfinished task with a unity of contraries at its heart: upholding local narrative ground with tenacious loyalty while working in an increasingly large world.
Philip Melanchthon : Theologian in Classroom, Confession, and Controversy
Irene Dingel, Timothy J. Wengert, Robert Kolb, Nicole Kuropka
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The Myth of the Reformation
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Calvin and Luther: The Continuing Relationship
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Augustine of Hippo and Martin Luther on Original Sin and Justification of the Sinner
Jairzinho Lopes Pereira
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In-visibility : Reflections upon Visibility and Transcendence in Theology, Philosophy and the Arts
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Law and Religion : The Legal Teachings of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations
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Preparing for Death, Remembering the Dead
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Reformed Majorities in Early Modern Europe
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The Spirituality of the Heidelberg Catechism : Papers of the International Conference on the Heidelberg Catechism Held in Apeldoorn 2013
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Latomus and Luther : The Debate: Is every Good Deed a Sin?
Anna Vind
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Underground Protestantism in Sixteenth Century Spain : A Much Ignored Side of Spanish History
Frances Luttikhuizen
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Nineteenth-Century Lutheran Theologians
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