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Papers presented at the 6th-centennial symposium to clebrate Cusanus' birth, Catholic Univ of America, O 2001. Contents: Introduction, by P Casarella. Nicholas of Cusa's sermon on the Pater noster, tr by F Tobin. Seeing and not seeing: Nicholas of Cusa's De visione Dei in the history of western mysticism, by B McGinn. Nicholas of Cusa's intellectual relationship to Anselm of Canterbury, by J Hopkins. The question of pantheism from Eckhart to Cusanus, by L Dupre. The image of the living God: some remarks on the meaning of perfection and world formation, by W Dupre. On the power and poverty of perspective: Cusanus and Alberti, by K Harries. An Italian painting from the late fifteenth century and the Cribratio alkorani of Nicholas of Cusa, by W Euler. A brief report on the painting of three haloed figures, by I Kim. The concept of infallibility in Nicholas of Cusa, by T Prugl. Empire meets nation: imperial authority and national government in Renaissance political thought, by C Nederman. Medieval and modern constitutionalism: Nicholas of Cusa and John Locke, by P Sigmund. How can the infinite be the measure of the finite? three mathematical metaphors from De docta ignorantia, by E Brient. "The earth is a noble star": the arguments for the relativity of motion in the cosmology of Nicholas Cusanus and their transformation in Einstein's theory of relativity, by Regine Kather. Bibliography: p 251-254. Index: p 261-280.