Meister Eckhart

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Meister Eckhart: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Jeanne Ancelet-Hustache, Master Eckhart and the Rhineland Mystics (1957), contains a short, excellent, illustrated introduction to his life and work. James M. Clark, Meister Eckhart: An Introduction to the Study of His Works (1957), a good exposition of Eckhart’s thinking, includes an anthology of his sermons. C.F. Kelley, Meister Eckhart on Divine Knowledge (1977), explains this doctrine in scholarly detail. Reiner Schürmann, Meister Eckhart, Mystic and Philosopher (1978), translates eight sermons and analyzes three of them in detail, placing Eckhart’s doctrines in historical context and relating them to contemporary ideas. Frank Tobin, Meister Eckhart: Thought and Language (1986), is a careful analysis of the theologian’s writings.

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Reiner Schürmann

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Article History

Description	Contributor	Date
Add new Web site: Academia - Dynamics of Meister Eckhart Past and Present1.	Gloria Lotha	Dec 24, 2024
First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Feb 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Famous Philosophers - Biography of Meister Eckhart.	Gloria Lotha	Oct 24, 2019
Add new Web site: Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Biography of Johannes Eckhart.	Yamini Chauhan	May 27, 2014
Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Meister Eckhart.	Gloria Lotha	Jun 27, 2006
Article revised.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Dec 21, 2001
Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998