How Tolerable is Cusa’s Tolerance? Revisiting Cusa’s Encounter with Islam

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ID13099787
AuthorsSusan Gottlöber (0000-0002-2238-2500, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume8
Publication date2019-12-18
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEntangled Religions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2363-6696 • E-ISSN: 2363-6696
PublisherCERES / KHK Bochum (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.46586/er.8.2019.8435
OpenAlexW4251770634
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited6

This paper will analyze Cusa’s approach to Islam as a test case regarding toleration. Firstly, we will establish toleration and its key components as tertium comparationis. Secondly, we will give a brief overview of Cusa’s main positions on Islam and (religious) diversity, including some shifts that occur within his sustained study of the Qur’an. Thirdly, we will apply the concept of toleration to some key points taken from two of Cusa’s works in which he engages in an imagined dialogue with Islam in order to identify his grounds for accepting, objecting to, and rejecting Islamic doctrines. We will argue that while Cusa’s irenic position and his concept of human nature remain constant principles regarding his toleration of Islam, Cusa’s application of the concept of rationabilitas plays a major role in shifting from tolerating to rejecting Islamic doctrines the more the latter are interpreted as heretical

Diversity (politics · Epistemology · Islam · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Toleration · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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