Meister Eckhart (um 1260 bis 1328) zählt zu den bedeutendsten Denkern des Mittelalters.
Die neue zweibändige Ausgabe bietet Eckharts deutsche Predigten und Traktate sowie eine Auswahl aus den wichtigsten lateinischen Schriften. Der kritisch geprüfte Originaltext und die Übersetzung stehen sich synoptisch gegenüber. Der Kommentar erläutert Eckharts Denken vor dem Hintergrund der mittelalterlichen theologischen und philosophischen Tradition.
Der bedeutendste deutsche Mystiker des Mittelalters in einer reichen Auswahl seiner deutschen Traktate, lateinischen Werke und Predigten
Originaltext und Übersetzung nach der historisch-kritischen Ausgabe in synoptischer Gegenüberstellung
Umfangreicher Kommentar zu Leben und Werk, zu Quellen und Nachwirkung
Meister is German for "Master", referring to the academic title Magister in theologia he obtained in Paris. Coming into prominence during the decadent Avignon Papacy and a time of increased tensions between the Franciscans and Eckhart's Dominican Order of Preacher Friars, he was brought up on charges later in life before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition. Tried as a heretic by Pope John XXII, his "Defence" is famous for his reasoned arguments to all challenged articles of his writing and his refutation of heretical intent. He purportedly died before his verdict was received, although no record of his death or burial site has ever been discovered.
Meister Eckhart is sometimes (erroneously) referred to as "Johannes Eckhart", although Eckhart was his given name and von Hochheim was his surname.
"Perhaps no mystic in the history of Christianity has been more influential and more controversial than the Dominican Meister Eckart. Few, if any, mystics have been as challenging to modern day readers and as resistant to agreed-upon interpretation."
—Bernard McGinn, The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart... Show more