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NICHOLAS OF CUSA 61<br />

5. Work, insofar as possible, with the in<strong>te</strong>rpretations that the<br />

wise among the Arabs assign to the Qur'än."<br />

While the fourth rule is theologically the most in<strong>te</strong>resting as it seems<br />

to suggest the possibility of recognizing God as author of the Qur'än<br />

who may sometimes disclose the truth of the Gospel even beyond the<br />

in<strong>te</strong>nt of the human author,55 the fifth rule seems to open a premodern<br />

possibility for in<strong>te</strong>rreligious practices of reading Scriptures<br />

together such as comparative theology and Scriptural reasoning. In<br />

this respect, we may still learn from the docta ignorantia of the past.<br />

54 See ibid., 45-50.<br />

55 See the quotations given ibid., 49.

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