Becoming God: The Doctrine of Theosis in Nicholas Cusa.(Book review)

Renaissance Quarterly | December 22, 2007| | Copyright

Nancy Hudson. Becoming God: The Doctrine of Theosis in Nicholas Cusa. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2007. xiv + 218 pp. index. bibl. $59.95. ISBN: 978-0-8132-1472-6.

Nicholas of Cusa's De filiatione Dei (1445) was one of a series of brief works he authored just after finishing the longer De docta ignorantia and De conjecturis. This inspiring treatise provides Nicholas's considered reflections on the fourth Gospel's proclamation that those who believe in Christ have "power to be made sons of God." His proposals center around the idea that ...

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