Juan de Torquemada, Nicholas of Cusa and Pius II on the Islamic Promise of Paradise

Autor:	Thomas M. Izbicki
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	History Western Christianity Juan de Torquemada Nicholas of Cusa Philosophy media_common.quotation_subject Religious studies Islam religion.religion religion Christian polemics against Islam Sexual pleasure Pius II Islamic belief Afterlife Paradise media_common
Zdroj:	Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 26, 97-112 (2019) Helvia. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Córdoba instname
ISSN:	2530-7878 1133-0902
DOI:	10.21071/refime.v26i1.11850
Popis:	Western Christianity had a long history of polemics against Islam. That included rejecting Muhammad’s idea of paradise as excessively «carnal». In the mid-15th century, three members of the Roman curia took differing approaches to the Otto-mans as Muslims. Pius II tried to persuade the sultan to give up Islam, offering him a «better» paradise. Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa sought evidence of the gospels in the Qur’an, but he rejected the Prophet’s «carnal» view of the afterlife. Cardinal Juan de Torquemada, a Dominican, offered a more thorough and negative view of Islam, denouncing carnality but also treating the Qur’anic description of paradise as impossi-ble, requiring an unending multiplication of locations in the afterlife for devout Muslims. Torquemada also offered a Thomistic view of the risen body as incapable not just of sexual pleasure but a free from worldly suffering.
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