Meister Eckhart And The Beguine Mystics

Author : Bernard McGinn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441134581
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics written by Bernard McGinn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-01-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great German mystic Meister Eckhart remains one of the most fascinating figures in Western thought. Revived interest in Eckhart's mysticism has been matched, and even surpassed, by the study of the women mystics of the late13th century. This book argues that Eckhart's thought cannot be fully be understood until it is viewed against the background of the breakthroughs made by the women mystics who preceded him.

Author : Richard Woods
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441118756
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meister Eckhart written by Richard Woods and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy Radcliffe introduces this masterly short guide to Eckhart's mystical teaching - perfectly pitched for those interested in spirituality and theology. Richard Woods writes as a passionate advocate of Eckhart's relevance to issues and challenges facing intelligent people today with emphasis on religious understanding, belief, action and human suffering. The fruit of more than ten years of reflection, Meister Eckhart: Master of Mystics explores a set of related themes bridging Eckhart's medieval world and our own turbulent times - women's role in spirituality and church life, global climate change and the sacredness of Creation, the meaning of detachment, the blind alleys of spiritual 'technology', the meaning of contemplation and the place of prayer, Eckhart's views on art and spirituality, his daring insights into the challenges of pain and suffering, and Eckhart's relevance for wider and deeper encounter among world religions. Other chapters investigate Eckhart's wide-ranging sources and his revolutionary approach to the redeeming mission of Jesus Christ.

Author : Oliver Davies
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498299938
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhineland Mystics written by Oliver Davies and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the great Rhineland mystics of the fourteenth century speaks to the modern reader with astonishing directness and clarity. In their emphasis on the personal, inward experience of God and their questioning of the formal, ritualistic side of religion, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Jan van Ruusbroec appear almost as contemporaries. This impression is heightened by vivid new translations by Oliver Davies, who also sets the Rhineland mystics in their historical and cultural context and examines why we seem to have a special sensitivity to their voice in spite of a gap of over six hundred years.

Author : Joel F. Harrington
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110198158X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Mystic written by Joel F. Harrington and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and times of the 14th century German spiritual leader Meister Eckhart, whose theory of a personal path to the divine inspired thinkers from Jean Paul Sartre to Thomas Merton, and most recently, Eckhart Tolle Meister Eckhart was a medieval Christian mystic whose wisdom powerfully appeals to seekers seven centuries after his death. In the modern era, Eckhart's writings have struck a chord with thinkers as diverse as Heidegger, Merton, Sartre, John Paul II, and the current Dalai Lama. He is the inspiration for the bestselling New Age author Eckhart Tolle's pen name, and his fourteenth-century quotes have become an online sensation. Today a variety of Christians, as well as many Zen Buddhists, Sufi Muslims, Jewish Cabbalists, and various spiritual seekers, all claim Eckhart as their own. Meister Eckhart preached a personal, internal path to God at a time when the Church could not have been more hierarchical and ritualistic. Then and now, Eckhart’s revolutionary method of direct access to ultimate reality offers a profoundly subjective approach that is at once intuitive and pragmatic, philosophical yet non-rational, and, above all, universally accessible. This “dangerous mystic’s” teachings challenge the very nature of religion, yet the man himself never directly challenged the Church. Eckhart was one of the most learned theologians of his day, but he was also a man of the world who had worked as an administrator for his religious order and taught for years at the University of Paris. His personal path from conventional friar to professor to lay preacher culminated in a spiritual philosophy that combined the teachings of an array of pagan and Christian writers, as well as Muslim and Jewish philosophers. His revolutionary decision to take his approach to the common people garnered him many enthusiastic followers as well as powerful enemies. After Eckhart’s death and papal censure, many religious women and clerical supporters, known as the Friends of God, kept his legacy alive through the centuries, albeit underground until the master’s dramatic rediscovery by modern Protestants and Catholics. Dangerous Mystic grounds Meister Eckhart in a world that is simultaneously familiar and alien. In the midst of this medieval society, a few decades before the Black Death, Eckhart boldly preached to captivated crowds a timeless method, a “wayless way,” of directly experiencing the divine.

Author : Robert K. C. Forman
Publisher : Element Books, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meister Eckhart written by Robert K. C. Forman and published by Element Books, Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a series that takes the classical spiritual fathers and mother of the past as models of methodology for a theology or religious thinking adequate to the needs of the present and future.

Author : James C. Harrington
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761865438
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern written by James C. Harrington and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de León, and Meister Eckhart—three of the greatest mystics of all time—meet in Venice for an imaginary night-long conversation that will inspire everyday individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize that everyone can be a mystic. Although the mystics came from different backgrounds and religious traditions (Islam, Judaism, and Christianity), their spiritual paths led them to similar understandings of a union with the Divine. The three mystics have a timeless and timely message for people who walk the earth eight centuries after they did, no matter an individual’s religious background or even if they have none. It is a message of connecting with the “divine spark” deep within us and within the universe.

Author : Bernard McGinn
Publisher : Herder & Herder
ISBN 13 : 9780824519964
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart written by Bernard McGinn and published by Herder & Herder. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been hailed as the finest English-language work on Meister Eckhart, renowed medieval mystic.

Author : Eckhart
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834826399
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing written by Eckhart and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2005-12-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the writing and preaching of the greatest medieval European mystic contains selections from his sermons, treatises, and sayings, as well as Table Talk, the records of his informal advice to his spiritual children.

Author : Meister Eckhart
Publisher : Herder & Herder
ISBN 13 : 9780824525170
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart written by Meister Eckhart and published by Herder & Herder. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Meister Eckhart's complete mystical teachings together in one volume, for the first time! With a foreword by leading Eckhart scholar Bernard McGinn, and the elegant translation of Maurice O'C Walshe, this comprehensive and authoritative work is a treasure for every serious spiritual seeker, and the finest volume on Eckhart ever to appear in English."--Publisher's website.

Author : Meister Eckhart
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006130008X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meister Eckhart written by Meister Eckhart and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1957-02-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Father of German Mysticism Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) was a German theologian, philosopher, professor, and mystic. In his distinguished career, he became a professor of theology at the University of Paris and took a leading pastoral and organizational role in the Dominican Order. Later in his life he was brought before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition and was tried as a heretic. In response Eckhart produced "The Defense" in which he famously defended his writings and refuted their heretical intent. This book collects his most important writings, including his many sermons, as well as his historic response to accusations of heresy.