Meister Eckhart
German sermons — radical mystic
The most radical mystic of the medieval West. 'The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.' His influence persisted through Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Heidegger.
Key works
- German Sermons (Deutsche Predigten)~1300-1326— Over 100 sermons — radical mysticism in the vernacular
- Opus Tripartitum (Latin works)~1305-1310— Systematic theology — the framework behind the sermons