A companion to Meister Eckhart / edited by Jeremiah M. Hackett.

This book meets an obvious need in English language studies on Meister Eckhart. It is the first handbook on Eckhart for graduate and undergraduate students. It is divided into three parts. Part one deals with the life, works, career, and trial; Greek, Jewish, and Arabic philosophical sources, and so...

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Superior document:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition : a series of handbooks and reference works on the intellectual and religious life of Europe, 500-1800, v. 36
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 36.
Physical Description:1 online resource (811 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction to Part One: A Companion to Meister Eckhart / Bernard McGinn
  • Meister Eckhart’s Life, Training, Career, and Trial / Walter Senner
  • Eckhart’s Latin Works / Alessandra Beccarisi
  • Eckhart as Preacher, Administrator, and Master of the Sentences. From Erfurt to Paris and Back: 1294–1313. The Origins of the Opus tripartitum / Loris Sturlese
  • Eckhart’s German Works / Dagmar Gottschall
  • The Theory of the Transcendentals in Meister Eckhart / Tamar Tsopurashvili
  • From Aquinas to Eckhart on Creation, Creature, and Analogy / Jeremiah Hackett and Jennifer Hart Weed
  • Eckhart’s Anthropology / Udo Kern
  • Eckhart’s Islamic and Jewish Sources: Avicenna, Avicebron, and Averroes / Alessandro Palazzo
  • Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Eckhart / Elisa Rubino
  • Introduction to Part Two: Meister Eckhart as Preacher and Theologian / Paul A. Dietrich
  • Meister Eckhart’s Latin Biblical Exegesis / Donald F. Duclow
  • Meister Eckhart’s Vernacular Preaching / Bruce Milem
  • Meister Eckhart’s Understanding of God / Markus Enders
  • Meister Eckhart and Moses Maimonides: From Judaeo-Arabic Rationalism to Christian Mysticism / Yossef Schwartz
  • Eckhart and the World of Women’s Spirituality in the Context of the “Free Spirit” and Marguerite Porete / Lydia Wegener
  • The Mirror of Simple Souls: The Ethics of Margaret Porette / Jack C. Marler
  • Introduction to Part Three
  • The Reception of Meister Eckhart in 14th-Century Germany / Nadia Bray
  • Eckhart and the Vernacular Tradition: Pseudo-Eckhart and Eckhart Legends / Dagmar Gottschall
  • Meister Eckhart’s Influence on Nicholas of Cusa: A Survey of the Literature / Elizabeth Brient
  • On a Dangerous Trail: Henry Suso and the Condemnations of Meister Eckhart / Fiorella Retucci
  • Meister Eckhart and Valentin Weigel / Andrew Weeks
  • Eckhart Reception in the 19th Century / Cyril O’Regan
  • Meister Eckhart in 20th-Century Philosophy / Dermot Moran
  • Epilogue: Meister Eckhart—Between Mysticism and Philosophy / Karl Albert†
  • Appendix: Dominican Education / Walter Senner
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Scripture References
  • Index of Subjects.