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Becoming God: The Doctrine of Theosis in Nicholas of Cusa

by Nancy J. Hudson
Catholic University of America Press, 2007
Cloth: 978-0-8132-1472-6 | eISBN: 978-0-8132-1612-6
Library of Congress Classification BT767.8.H83 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 234

ABOUT THIS BOOK

The doctrine of theosis means a salvation that is the deification of the saved. The saved actually become God. This unusual doctrine lies at the heart of Nicholas of Cusa's (1401-1464) mystical metaphysics. It is here examined for the first time as a theme in its own right, along with its implications for Cusanus's doctrine of God, his theological anthropology, and his epistemology.