A Communication Ethic of Dialogic Reformation

Nicholas of Cusa on Care for Communities in Crisis
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-525-50216-7
Verlag: Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht

Buch, Englisch, Band 106, 232 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

Reihe: Refo500 Academic Studies

Calls for reformation were widespread across the medieval Roman Catholic Church, but few were as nuanced or philosophically rich as the lifelong work of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464). Cusa centralized the coincidentia oppositorum, the coincidence of opposites, in our knowledge of God and the mystical institution of the Church. In his book, Michael R. Kearney traces Cusa’s historical impact on philosophy of communication and communication ethics with an eye toward the health of institutions in a postmodern moment of cynicism and decline. Cusa loved the church and fought passionately for its reform, energized by the “clouded vision” of a God who is beyond opposites. This champion of dialogic reformation offers churches and communities an unfinished task with a unity of contraries at its heart: upholding local narrative ground with tenacious loyalty while working in an increasingly large world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kearney, Michael R.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Brown, Christopher B.

Frank, Günter

Mahlmann-Bauer, Barbara

Rasmussen, Tarald

Soen, Violet

Tóth, Zsombor

Wassilowsky, Günther

Westphal, Siegrid

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Soen, Violet
Dr. Violet Soen is Associate Professor for Early Modern History at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Leuven.

Frank, Günter
Dr. Günter Frank ist Direktor der Europäischen Melanchthon-Akademie Bretten und außerplanmäßiger Professor am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.

Westphal, Siegrid
Prof. Dr. Siegrid Westphal ist Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit an der Universität Osnabrück sowie Direktorin des Forschungszentrums Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit.

Brown, Christopher B.
Dr. Christopher B. Brown is Associate Professor of Church History at Boston University.

Wassilowsky, Günther
Dr. Günther Wassilowsky ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Rasmussen, Tarald
Tarald Rasmussen ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Universität Oslo.

Kearney, Michael R.
Michael R. Kearney, PhD (Duquesne University, 2024), is Assistant Professor of Communication at Dordt University in Sioux Center, IA. He has published eleven journal articles in outlets such as Explorations in Media Ecology, Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, and Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric. He is coauthor of the third edition of Communication Ethics Literacy: Dialogue and Difference (2023) with Janie M. Harden Fritz and Leeanne M. Bell McManus. His research focuses on communication ethics, dialogue, crisis communication, and religious communication. He is a member of the Eastern Communication Association, the National Communication Association, the Religious Communication Association, and the International Society for the History of Rhetoric.

Tóth, Zsombor
Dr. Zsombor Tóth is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Literary Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Mahlmann-Bauer, Barbara
Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer ist Professorin em. für „Neuere deutsche Literatur“ an der Universität Bern.