Gottlöber, Susan
(2019)
How Tolerable is Cusa's Tolerance? Revisiting Cusa's Encounter with Islam.
Entangled Religions, 8.
ISSN 2363-6696
Abstract
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.
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Article
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| Additional Information: |
Copyright ©2019 Susan Gottlöber. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Cite as: Gottlöber, S. (2019). How Tolerable is Cusa’s Tolerance? Revisiting Cusa’s Encounter with Islam. Entangled Religions, 8. https://doi.org/10.13154/er.8.2019.8435 |
| Keywords: |
Tolerance; toleration; Islam; Islamic; Christian; Christianity; diversity; rationabilitas;
acceptance; objection; rejection; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > Philosophy |
| Item ID: |
14183 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.13154/er.8.2019.8435 |
| Depositing User: |
Susan Gottlöber
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| Date Deposited: |
15 Mar 2021 16:29 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Entangled Religions |
| Publisher: |
Bochum Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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| Use Licence: |
This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available
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