Examining the theological view of Nicholaus Cusanus about the representation of the divine in the image

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1 PhD Candidate, Philosophy Department, Literature& Foreign Language, Allame Tabatabai, Tehran, Iran

2 Professor of Philosophy Department, Literature& Foreign Language, Allame Tabatabai, Tehran, Iran

10.22080/jre.2024.28010.1217

Abstract

In his treatise De Visione Dei which seems to have been written in response to the question of the monks who asked him about how to see God, Cusanus discusses his theological theory in the form of analyzing the paintings that, according to him, were able to depict a type of God that more than anything else is aligned with his perception of God as a non-other. In this article, after the introduction, an account of Cusanus’ theological view of God will be given, and then an attempt will be made to deal with the elemental features in the mentioned paintings that Cusanus called "the all-seeing eye". The all-seeing eye is a factor in these paintings, which, according to Cusanus, can introduce us to an aspect of God that is different from conventional metaphysical perceptions, that is, in this new perspective, God is no longer in sameness or otherness with the creation. Instead, he is the non-otherness of this world. This article tries to investigate and detail this issue.

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