Wandering Joy - Meister Eckhart''s Mystical Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Meister Eckhart (Eckhart von Hochheim O.P., c.1260-c.1328) was a German theologian, philosopher, and mystic born near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire. Eckhart came to prominence during the Avignon papacy, a time of increased tensions among monastic orders, diocesan clergy, the Franciscan Order, and Eckhart's Dominican Order of Preachers. In later life, Eckhart was accused of heresy, brought before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition, and tried as a heretic by Pope John XXII, but it seems he died before his verdict was received. He was well known for his work with pious lay groups such as the Friends of God and was succeeded by his more circumspect disciples John Tauler and Henry Suso. Since the nineteenth century, he has received renewed attention. He has acquired a status as a great mystic within contemporary popular spirituality, as well as considerable interest from scholars situating him within the medieval scholastic and philosophical tradition. Klappentext This remarkable book shows the seminal Western mystic Meister Eckhart as the great teacher of the birth of God in the soul. It is at once an exposition of Eckhart's mysticism -- perhaps the best in English -- and also an exemplary work of contemporary philosophy.Schurmann shows us that Eckhart is our contemporary. Writing from experience, he describes the threefold movement of detachment, releasement, and "dehiscence" (splitting open) that leads to the experience of "living without a why" in which all things are in God and which is sheer joy. Going beyond that, he describes the transformational force of approaching the Godhead, the God beyond God. Zusammenfassung Both an exposition of Eckhart?s mysticism and an exemplary work of contemporary philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Meister Eckhart
• Assisted by: Reiner Schurmann (Editor), Schurmann Reiner (Editor), Reiner Schurmann (Translation)
• Publisher: Floris Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2001
• EAN: 9780970109712
• ISBN: 978-0-9701097-1-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Mysticism, Christianity, mysticism, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Christian Mysticism, Medieval Western philosophy