Selected Writings (Eckhart, Meister)
'A free mind can achieve all things. But what is a free mind?' Composed during a critical time in the evaluation of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between ancient Greek thought and Christian faith. Writing with great rhetorical brilliance, Eckhart Combines the Neoplatonic concept of oneness-the idea that the ultimate principle of the universe is single and undivided-with his Christian belief in the Trinity, and considers the struggle to describe a perfect God through the imperfect medium of language. Fusing philosophy and religion with vivid ori…
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Weitere Autoren: Davies, Oliver (Solist) / Davies, Oliver (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-14-043343-2
- EAN: 9780140433432
- Produktnummer: 9335544
- Verlag: Penguin Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.9 cm 235 g
- Gewicht: 235
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
Johannes Eckhart, commonly known as Meister Eckhart, was born near Gotha in eastern Germany around 1260. He had an illustrious career in the Dominican Order, teaching all over Europe including Saxony, Bohemia and Paris. He is one of the great speculative mystics of Western Europe, who sougth to reconcile traditional Christian belief with transcendental metaphysics. He was accused of heretical teaching in his lifetime, but is seen today as a foremost exponent of Christian philosophical theology. He died in 1327/8.Oliver Davies is senior lecturer in theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter.
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