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The Medieval Church · 1453
On the Vision of God
De Visione Dei
Nicholas of Cusa · 1401–1464
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What it is
Written for monks with a painting whose eyes follow every viewer: an exercise in which each brother sees the gaze fixed on him alone, and learns from it how God sees.
Why it lasted
The most inventive devotional book of the century — a philosophical argument conducted through a physical object placed on a wall.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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