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A work by a later thinker depicts a scholar, a scientist, and a teacher on a country path discussing a term inspired by this man’s thought, translated as “releasement.” In one work, this thinker twice states “let us pray to God that we may be free of God.” This thinker (15[1])was concerned with “not deus but deitas” according to Martin Heidegger’s book The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, which references his controversial distinction between God and the (*) Godhead. This thinker’s claim “Esse est deus,” or “Being is god,” is compared to “This Atman is silent” in Rudolf Otto’s follow-up to The Idea of the (10[1])Holy, where this man is the European counterpart to Adi Shankara. Keiji Nishitani analyzed “absolute nothingness” in this man’s (-5[1])“negative theology,” while (-5[1])D. T. Suzuki (10[1]-5[1])featured him in Mysticism: Christian and Buddhist. For 10 points, name this 14th-century Dominican (10[1])theologian, a German mystic. ■END■ (10[5]0[1])

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