coincidentia oppositorum

Japanese: coincidentia oppositorum(英語表記)coincidentiaoppositorum
coincidentia oppositorum

…The human person is both flesh and spirit, living and growing in time while aiming for eternity, maintaining a depth of soul that is known only by God, and is a social being that can only become a person in communion with other persons. Christianity unifies these opposing demands of the person by taking them to the extreme, and this “coincidence of opposites,” can be said to represent the fundamental characteristic of Christianity as a religion.
[Christianity from the inside]
The question "What is Christianity?" must sooner or later lead to the question of how Christians themselves understand their religion.

From [Symbol]

…That is to say, religious symbols have several references at the same time. Sometimes the same symbol may even have completely opposite meanings (Nicholas of Cusanus's "coincidentia oppositorum"). And therefore myths and rituals, which have a very simple structure, have various levels of meaning. …

From Mysticism

… Pietism [Kanteru Ueda]
[Modern and contemporary mystical movements and their surroundings]
Western mysticism after the Renaissance focused on the relationship between wisdom and mystical experience, in keeping with the spirit of the times. Representatives of this movement include Nicholas of Cusanus, who sought to understand God as the "coincidence of opposites" through knowledge beyond knowledge, that is, the "docta ignorantia" (knowledge of ignorance), and Spinoza, who emphasized reason. This trend therefore overlapped with occultism, which rediscovered ancient wisdom, and separated and developed through the Hermetic thought of Ficino and others, who revived the mystical philosophy of Egypt and Greece, into Rosicrucian thought (Rosicrucian Order) by J. Dee and J. V. Andreae, and Martinism represented by Martinez de Pascali and Saint-Martin.

From Nicholas of Cusanus

…However, a more appropriate interpretation would be to position him as a typical Renaissance humanist and a thinker of the transitional period, due to his emphasis on the individual, his emphasis on mathematics and scientific research, and his view of nature that the world is in some sense infinite. The central principle of his thought is the unity of opposites (coincidentia oppositorum). In finite beings, various distinctions and oppositions are found, including the distinction between being and essence, but in the infinite God, they all coincide. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "coincidentia oppositorum" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…人間の人格は肉であると同時に霊,時間のうちで生き成長すると同時に永遠をめざし,神以外の何者も知りえない魂の深淵を保ちつつ,他の人格との交わりにおいてはじめて人格たりうる社会的存在である。キリスト教はこうした人格の対立的な諸要求を極限まで徹底させることを通じて統一しており,この〈対立するものの一致coincidentia oppositorum〉こそ,宗教としてのキリスト教の根本的特徴を示すものといえる。
【内から見たキリスト教】
 〈キリスト教とは何か〉という問いは,遅かれ早かれ,キリスト信者自身は自分たちの宗教をどう理解しているのか,という問いに行きつかざるをえない。…

【象徴】より

…すなわち,宗教的象徴は同時に幾つかの参照項をもつということである。ときには同一の象徴がまったく正反対の意味を示すことさえある(ニコラウス・クサヌスの〈相反するものの一致coincidentia oppositorum〉)。そして,それゆえに,ひじょうに簡素な構造をもつ神話や儀礼がさまざまな意味レベルをもつのである。…

【神秘主義】より

…敬虔主義【上田 閑照】
【近・現代における神秘主義運動とその周辺】
 ルネサンス以降の西欧の神秘主義は,時代精神にふさわしく叡智と神秘体験のかかわりに注目した。知識を超えた知識,すなわち〈無知の知docta ignorantia〉によって〈反対の一致coincidentia oppositorum〉たる神を認識しようとしたニコラウス・クサヌスや,理性を重要視したスピノザがその代表者である。したがって,この潮流は太古の叡智を再発見するオカルティズムとも重なり,エジプトやギリシアの神秘哲学を再興するフィチーノらのヘルメス思想を経由して,J.ディーやJ.V.アンドレーエによる薔薇十字思想(薔薇十字団),マルティネス・ド・パスカリやサン・マルタンを代表とするマルティニスムなどへ分離発展した。…

【ニコラウス・クサヌス】より

…しかし,より妥当な解釈は,個体の重要視,数学・科学的研究の強調,世界はある意味で無限であるとする自然観などのゆえに,典型的なルネサンス人文主義者,過渡期の思想家として位置づけることであろう。 彼の思想の中心原理は〈対立物の一致coincidentia oppositorum〉である。有限者においては存在と本質の区別をはじめ,さまざまの区別や対立が見いだされるが,無限なる神においてそれらはすべて一致する。…

※「coincidentia oppositorum」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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