Meister Eckhart

Literature & Philosophy~1260 – ~1328

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)~1300-1326Over 100 sermons — radical mysticism in the vernacular
  • Opus Tripartitum (Latin works)~1305-1310Systematic theology — the framework behind the sermons

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