Masters of Learned Ignorance: Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus

The medieval Christian West's most radical practitioners of a Neoplatonic, negative theology with a mystical focus are John Scottus Eriugena, Meister Eckhart and Nicholas Cusanus.

All three mastered what Cusanus described as docta ignorantia: reflecting on their awareness that they could know neither God nor the human