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| Anselm | |
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| Life and Works | |
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| Anselm's Fundamental Philosophical Idea | |
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| Inward quietness, not mysticism | |
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| Insight and empty thought | |
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| A unique idea, meaningful only in relation to God | |
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| No object | |
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| Anselm's "theory of contradiction" | |
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| Anselm's thought as an invocation of God | |
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| The significance of his "proof" in Anselm's life | |
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| Gaunilon against Anselm | |
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| Characterization of Anselm's Thinking | |
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| Nicholas of Cusa | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Life | |
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| Works | |
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| Philosophical Speculation | |
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| The Fundamental Idea | |
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| The Mind | |
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| The mind in general | |
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| Cognition as conjecture (coniectura) | |
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| Methods and aim | |
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| Faith | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is faith? | |
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| Revealed faith and philosophical faith, theological and philosophical thinking | |
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| Speculative metaphor (cipher) and revealed bodily presence (spatiotemporal reality) | |
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| Whence comes the content of faith? | |
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| Authority and originality | |
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| Faith and obedience | |
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| Truth in Mathematics | |
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| The Whole of Being | |
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| God | |
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| Dialogue on the hidden God | |
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| On speculation | |
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| Examples of speculative attempts to approach God | |
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| From speculative thinking to acceptance of revelation | |
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| Example of a conceptualization of revelation: the Trinity | |
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| The World | |
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| The cosmos | |
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| Cosmological ideas | |
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| The eternity of the world | |
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| Individuals | |
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| Summary: The significance of Cusanus' world | |
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| Christ | |
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| Nicholas of Cusa and Modern Science | |
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| Did Cusanus help to found modern science? | |
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| Speculative method and experimental method. So-called "anticipations" | |
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| The meaning of science | |
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| Man's Task | |
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| The Individual | |
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| Peace | |
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| Fundamental reality of the Church. Cusanus' thinking in the Concordantia | |
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| De concordantia catholica | |
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| De pace fidei | |
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| Faith and communication | |
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| Political Action and the Conduct of Life | |
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| The Council of Basel | |
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| Brixen | |
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| The reform movement | |
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| The crusade against the Turks | |
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| Ecclesiastical benefices | |
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| His conduct of life--summary | |
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| His Place in History | |
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| Between the Middle Ages and the modern era | |
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| On historical interpretation | |
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| Cusanus' life and thought in relation to subsequent history | |
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| Lack of influence | |
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| Critical Estimate | |
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| The Meaning of Criticism | |
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| The significance of Cusanus' contradictions | |
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| The philosophical limits disclosed in Cusanus' life, ciphers and speculation | |
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| Cusanus the man | |
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| Cusanus' greatness lies in his metaphysics | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index of Names | |