Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises, and Defense
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
Meister Eckhart (c. 1260–1327) was a Dominican philosopher and spiritual master whose thought is among the most daring and difficult in the history of western mysticism. This volume contains his technical Latin writings and popular German sermons. Readers familiar with his writings will find many helpful insights from his teaching in this volume.
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- Translated from Latin or German into highly readable English
- Fully integrates and cross references with other resources from your Logos library
- Allows readers a glimpse into fourteenth-century Dominican spirituality
Eckhart von Hochheim (c. 1260 – c. 1328[1]), commonly known as Meister Eckhart, was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire. He was accused of heresy and brought up before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition, and tried as a heretic by Pope John XXII.