The Analogical Turn: Rethinking Modernity with Nicholas of Cusa (Interventions (INT))

by Johannes Hoff

Every other individual makes manifest to me that she sees by her own power of vision things that are invisible to me.

we do not need the Incarnation in order to see God. The Incarnation is not the ground of the possibility of our deification, but inversely (the possibility of) our deification is the ground of the possibility of the Incarnation (“shocking as this may seem”).48