Abstract

In his masterwork Glory of the Lord, Hans Urs von Balthasar wrote a chapter dedicated to Nicholas of Cusa. It's a short treatise on the search for the analogia entis using the Cusan system. As the chapter develops, this work shows how Nicholas expresses his own search for an explanation of the world. It begins with God through Docta ignorancia, daring to ask, how does one explain a way to join the one and the many? Nicholas searches for names from which to sustain himself, but only finds a God who contains within himself his Creation and a Creation that makes God explicit. It is the complicatio-explicatio that allows one to understand the Cusan theory of the coincidence of opposites. Above all, one sees that man is the measure of all, he who is the image of God. © 2009 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.