Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing Sermons, Writings, and Sayings

by ECKHART

• ISBN13: 9781590302798
• ISBN10: 1590302796
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-13
• Publisher: New Seeds

Summary

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 Biography

Meister Eckhart (1260–1327) was a German Dominican theologian and popular preacher who believed that God is best approached through paradox and mystery rather than through reason or logic. His works have rung true with seekers for more than eight hundred years.

Table of Contents

Foreword: On Reading Eckhart	vii
Editor's Introduction	xix
Sayings	1	(26)
From Table Talk
The Most Powerful Prayer of All	15	(1)
Solitude and God-Getting	16	(5)
Unremitting Effort in the Highest Progress	21	(1)
What to Do on Missing God Who Is in Hiding	22	(3)
Why God Often Lets Good People . . .	25	(2)
From The Book of Divine Consolation	27	(62)
From Sermons
This Is Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing	45	(14)
Innocents' Day	59	(2)
On Luke 14:16	61	(4)
The Love of God	65	(6)
Poverty	71	(4)
What Mary Was Doing	75	(2)
Peace	77	(4)
The Spark	81	(4)
The Beatific Vision	85	(4)
The Nobleman	89	(16)
On Detachment	105	(20)
For Further Reading	125	(2)
Sources and Credits	127