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2.6 - Northern Renaissance Platonism from Nicholas of Cusa to Jacob Böhme

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2021

By
Cecilia Muratori  and
Mario Meliadò
Edited by
Alexander J. B. Hampton  and
John Peter Kenney
Alexander J. B. Hampton
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
John Peter Kenney
Affiliation:
Saint Michael's College, Vermont
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This chapter considers the trajectory of Northern Renaissance Platonism from the fifteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. It highlights the persistence of certain topics from the time of Nicholas of Cusa to that of Jacob Böhme, while at the same time arguing that Christian Platonism remained an eclectic phenomenon, and to some extent also the production of its critics. The chapter focuses in particular on the idea of the coincidence of the opposites, especially in relation to the Divine, and on God’s presence in nature.

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Albertist schoolcoincidence of oppositesParacelsismproblem of evil
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Christian Platonism
A History
 , pp. 246 - 279
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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