Meister Eckhart

Meister Eckhart was a 14th-century Dominican theologian and preacher whose German and Latin works explored the soul, detachment, and union with God.

Christian mysticism: Christian traditions and practices centered on direct experience of God and transformation through divine presence. Eckhart’s sermons belong to a tradition that sought union with God beyond ordinary conceptual knowledge.
Ground of the Soul: The innermost depth of the soul in Eckhart’s thought, where the soul is open to God beyond ordinary faculties. This is where Eckhart locates the soul’s deepest encounter with divine reality.
Henry Suso: A German Dominican mystic and writer of the 14th century associated with the Rhineland mystical tradition. Suso’s writings show a different devotional expression of the spiritual world shared with Eckhart.
Order of Preachers: A Catholic religious order founded by Dominic in the early 13th century, devoted to preaching and theological study. Eckhart’s teaching and public career developed within this Dominican order.
In agro dominico: A 1329 papal bull that condemned several propositions attributed to Meister Eckhart. The bull defined the controversy surrounding Eckhart’s teachings while distinguishing condemned propositions from his person.
Apophatic theology: An approach to theology that describes God by negating finite concepts rather than assigning positive attributes. Eckhart often stresses that God exceeds every image or distinction the intellect can form.
Birth of God in the Soul: Eckhart’s image for God’s eternal Word becoming present in the soul through spiritual transformation. It names the inward event at the center of many of his sermons.
Johannes Tauler: A 14th-century German Dominican preacher whose sermons reflect the Rhineland mystical tradition. Tauler carried themes associated with Eckhart into a later generation of German preaching.
University of Paris: A medieval European center of higher learning where theology and philosophy were taught and debated. Eckhart studied and taught in Paris, the leading scholastic setting of his career.
German philosophical mysticism: A modern intellectual current that interprets mystical experience through philosophical accounts of mind, being, and divinity. Modern philosophers and theologians have repeatedly recast Eckhart as a source for this current.

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