Nicholas of Cusa's Brixen Sermons and Late Medieval Church Reform

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Nicholas of Cusa's Brixen Sermons and Late Medieval Church Reform is written by Richard J. Serina and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004326766 (ISBN 10) and 9789004326767 (ISBN 13).

Scholarship has recognized fifteenth-century speculative thinker Nicholas of Cusa for his early contributions to conciliar theory, but not his later ecclesiastical career as cardinal, residential bishop, preacher, and reformer. Richard Serina shows that, as bishop in the Tyrolese diocese of Brixen from 1452 to 1458, and later as resident cardinal in Rome, Nicolas of Cusa left a testament to his view of reform in the sermons he preached to monks, clergy, and laity. These 171 sermons, in addition to his Reformatio generalis of 1459, reflect an intellectual coming to terms with the challenge of reform in the late medieval church, and in response creatively incorporating metaphysics, mystical theology, ecclesiology, and personal renewal into his preaching of reform.