Participation in an intellectual tradition is often assessed through the doctrines and concepts a thinker inherits and reformulates. Yet absence can be equally revealing. This paper argues that Nicolaus Cusanus's corpus is marked not by a distinctive doctrine of creation, but by the conspicuous absence of one. Situated at the culmination of a medieval scholastic tradition dominated by systematic summae, in which a doctrine of creation functions as a foundational causal and ontological principle, Cusanus' omission is striking. Medieval accounts of creation—from Albertus Magnus' emanationist tendencies, through Aquinas' articulation of creation as efficient causality, to the ordered metaphysical frameworks of later scholasticism—establish determinate cosmological and epistemic architectures. By declining to articulate a doctrine of creation, Cusanus effectively extricates himself from these inherited metaphysical demands. At the same time, this omission situates him within an epistemological framework in which the distinction between the ordo creationis and the ordo cognoscendi cannot be coherently maintained. The absence of a creation doctrine thus emerges not as a lacuna but as a deliberate philosophical posture that reconfigures Cusanus' relationship to medieval cosmology, causality, and knowledge.