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Omnipotence In Cusan's The Vision Of God

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Many individuals attempt to define God as an all-knowing being, with omnipotence and omnipresence. While Cusan would agree with this, another version of God dominates his work, The Vision of God. Cusan references and rejects humanity’s efforts to explain and outline God’s existence while simultaneously stressing the unfathomable truth that he deems to be God. Although humanity limits God and his power with its attempts to define him, throughout Cusan’s The Vision of God, God emerges as an utterly infinite and incomprehensible entity. Despite peoples’ endeavors to comprehend and ascribe God with human-like qualities, Cusan emphasizes his inconceivable nature. As the practice of Christian Humanism rose in popularity during the Renaissance,

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