Is the ‘docta ignorantia’ a form of ‘philosophari in Maria’?

• Authors: Mátyás Szalay
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Cusanus’ learned ignorance is a complex notion that is explained as a form of introduction into Christian wisdom. The different meanings of how God exceeds our conceptual reach and remains ineffable despite all metaphorical approaches are laid out in three steps: the first is devoted to God (conicidencia oppositorum), the second to the Universe (complicatio/explicatio) and the third to the God-man, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is represented here as an intermediary, as measure and mediator between God and creation, the finite and the infinite. Along these lines I highlight three main aspects of docta ignoratia as especially relevant for contemporary thinking. These aspects will be used to evaluate the extent to which Cusanus’ powerful proposal to reinterpret Christian reality can help us respond to Pope John Paul II’s exhortation in Fides et ratio to understand and to exercise Christian reflection as philosophari in Maria.

Keywords

EN

Cusanus; philosophari in Maria,; fundamental attitude; learned ignorance; Christian philosophy

PL

Kuzańczyk; philosophari in Maria; postawa fundamentalna; wyuczona ignorancja; filozofia chrześcijańska

• Publisher: Akademia Katolicka w Warszawie
• Journal: Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 29-45

Dates

published

2020-11-20

Contributors

author

Mátyás Szalay

Identifiers

DOI

10.30439/WST.2020.1.2