Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart's Creation Spirituality in New Translation

by Meister Eckhart, Matthew Fox (Translator)

A new translation of thirty-seven of the sermons of Meister Eckhart, the fourteenth-century priest and mystic.  Best-selling author Matthew Fox brilliantly interprets Eckhart's themes and creates a spiritual path for the nineties.

Genres: Spirituality

580 pages, Paperback

First published September 3, 1980

About the author

Eckhart von Hochheim, commonly known as Meister Eckhart, was a German theologian, philosopher and mystic, born near Gotha, in Thuringia.

Meister is German for "Master", referring to the academic title Magister in theologia he obtained in Paris. Coming into prominence during the decadent Avignon Papacy and a time of increased tensions between the Franciscans and Eckhart's Dominican Order of Preacher Friars, he was brought up on charges later in life before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition. Tried as a heretic by Pope John XXII, his "Defence" is famous for his reasoned arguments to all challenged articles of his writing and his refutation of heretical intent. He purportedly died before his verdict was received, although no record of his death or burial site has ever been discovered.

Meister Eckhart is sometimes (erroneously) referred to as "Johannes Eckhart", although Eckhart was his given name and von Hochheim was his surname.

"Perhaps no mystic in the history of Christianity has been more influential and more controversial than the Dominican Meister Eckart. Few, if any, mystics have been as challenging to modern day readers and as resistant to agreed-upon interpretation."
—Bernard McGinn, The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart

Reviews

[Frank · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is of Meister Eckhart's Creation Spirituality consisting of 37 sermons and then commentaries by the author. This is a hard book to rate. Eckhart was a 14th century Dominican priest and said to be a mystic. I believe his writings are still banned by the Catholic Church and certainly some of the information provided in these sermons are very questionable. The book is interesting but very hard to grasp the deep meanings. Although there may be some very helpful thoughts in his works I find my idea of mysticism and his were wide apart and I will not read anymore by him nor would I recomend him to others.

[R. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read it 1/2 page at a time.

[Steve Gambino · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent translations of the original German for any Eckhart fan.