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Eckhart von Hochheim OP (c. 1260 – c. 1328), [1] commonly known as Meister Eckhart (pronounced [ˈmaɪstɐ ʔˈɛkaʁt]), Master Eckhart or Eckehart, claimed original name Johannes Eckhart, [2] was a German Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher and mystic.
Eckhart as Mystic, Theologian, and Philosopher. In much contemporary spiritual literature, various popular new-age tomes, and not a little academic scholarship, Meister Eckhart has been characterized first and foremost as a mystic—and only secondarily as a theologian or philosopher.
Meister Eckhart was a Dominican theologian and writer who was the greatest German speculative mystic. In the transcripts of his sermons in German and Latin, he charts the course of union between the individual soul and God.
of Meister Eckhart (d. 1328) with his groundbreaking edition of 110 sermons, 18 treatises, and a variety of sayings and other materials at tributed to the famous Dominican.1 Over the next eighty years other scholars of medieval German literature added more texts and dis cussed the authenticity of those produced by Pfeiffer. Finally, in the
193 quotes from Meister Eckhart: 'If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.', 'The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.', and 'Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.'.
Meister Eckhart says that the man who finds no taste of God wearies of looking for him. One of the criticisms of Christianity, and one of the reasons why many young Christians turn to the East, to Buddhism or to Hinduism, is that in Christianity there is no apparent help with method.
Life of Meister Eckhart. Eckhart was born in 1260 in Hochheim (Thuringia). He entered the Dominican Order quite early, and received most of his education in the Studium Generale in Cologne that Albert the Great had founded in 1248. In 1286 Eckhart went to Paris to study.
Meister Eckhart (1260-1327) is quite arguably the greatest Christian mystic of all time. Of course, the word “mysticism” is vague and usually connotes visionary experiences, of which there is little trace in Eckhart.
Meister Eckhart [1] (mīs´tər ĕk´härt) (Johannes Eckhardt), c.1260–c.1328, German mystical theologian, b. Hochheim, near Gotha. He studied and taught in the chief Dominican schools, notably at Paris, Strasbourg, and Cologne, and held a series of offices in his order.
Johannes Eckhart (1260 – 1328), also known as Eckhart von Hochheim and widely referred to as Meister Eckhart, was a German theologian, philosopher, and mystic, born near Erfurt, in Thuringia. Meister is German for "Master," referring to the academic title of Master of Theology that he obtained in Paris.