Немецкие тексты Майстера Экхарта в сочинении Иоанна Венка de ignota litteratura как источник аргументов против учения Николая Кузанского о coincidentia oppositorum
In work De ignota litteratura polemicizing with De docta ignorantia, John Wenck of Herrenberg, a professor of theology at the university of Heidelberg, cites three excerpts from three German works of Meister Eckhart: Liber benedictus and German sermons 2 and 6. Comparing the cited passages from these Eckhart’s texts used in the treatise by John Wenck with a Latin version of the German sermon Intravit Iesus in quoddam castellum, the author of this paper comes to conclusion that the whole point of John Wenck’s polemics with Nicolas of Cusa lies ultimately in dealing with formulations and ideas from the German texts of Meister Eckhart. Cusanus, who surely knew German Eckhartian and pseudo-Eckhartian tradition, would not surprisingly like remember and analyze them in De docta ignorantia and Apologia doctae ignorantiae. Unfortunately, Wenck doesn’t hesitate not to forget these controversial texts condemned in the bulla In agro dominico and by the theologians at the university of Heidelberg in 1430. In his critics on Nicolas of Cusa he can fi nd no better parallel to the doctrines of docta ignorantia and coincidentia oppositorum of Cusanus than the teachings on the detachment, the birth of God in the intimate depths of the human soul, and the unity of the soul with Godhead advocated by the German Dominican friar Meister Eckhart. Th e main object of the critics in De ignota litteratura was not only Cusanus and his theories of docta ignorantia and coincidentia oppositorum, but also an attempt to rehabilitate some teachings of Meister Eckhart in the Latin translations of his German sermons made during the Late Middle Ages.