Sammendrag
According to late medieval Scholasticism, humans are saved by grace, but only if God finds that they have adequately prepared themselves, while divine difference on this presupposition manifests itself as absolute omnipotence. Both Cusanus and Luther challenge this approach through an emphasis on God as the foundation and origin of human existence. From this point of view, humans realize their humanity to the extent that they explore their fellowship with God. A deepening of this fellowship thus issues in a realization of the possibility of human liberty, whereas on the via moderna assumption, closeness to God threatens human liberty. Cusanus and Luther also share an emphasis of the Trinitarian relationships as a model of humans’ relationship
with God. They differ, however, through Luther’s stronger emphasis on this relationship being established through the power of the word of God, and on his similar emphasis on God as the one who always gives in infinite love, thereby setting a pattern even for humans serving each other. The article argues, though, that as far as the relation between Luther and Cusanus is concerned, this is a difference of emphasis, not of structure.
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