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The third movement of John Adams's Harmonielehre symphony (1985) is titled "Meister Eckhart and Quackie", which imagines the mystic floating through space with the composer's daughter Emily (nicknamed Quackie) on his back whispering secrets of grace in his ear. [103]
Harmonielehre is a 40-minute orchestral composition by the American composer John Adams, composed in 1985.In his memoir, Adams wrote that the piece "was a statement of belief in the power of tonality at a time when I was uncertain about its future" [1] and that it was "a one-of-kind [] once-only essay in the wedding of fin-de-siècle chromatic harmony with the rhythmic and formal procedures of ...
Book cover Title page of the book. The Book of Divine Consolation (German: Buch der göttlichen Tröstung) is a book by the German scholar and mystic Meister Eckhart (Eckhart von Hochheim), that dates back to somewhere between 1305 and 1326.
Johannes Tauler OP (c. 1300 – 16 June 1361) was a German mystic, a Catholic priest and a theologian.A disciple of Meister Eckhart, he belonged to the Dominican order. ...
Condemned 28 propositions of Meister Eckhart and their further distribution. [90] 1333 (December 2) Summa providit altitudo consilii: 1336 Benedictus Deus ("On the beatific vision of God") Benedict XII: Declared that the saved see Heaven (and thus, God) before Judgement Day. [91] 1337 (August 29) Ex zelo fidei: Promising inquiry into host ...
Fragment of Meister Eckhart's remarks on the Ground of the Soul (Sermon 5b) in a contemporary manuscript; Göttingen, University of Göttingen, Diplomatischer Apparat 10 E IX Nr. 18 The concept of the Ground of the Soul ( German : Seelengrund ) is a term of late medieval philosophy and spirituality that also appears in early modern spiritual ...
Actor Aaron Eckhart got serious about shaping up for his role in the film 'I, Frankenstein,' which takes a whole new approach to the classic character. Eckhart plays a modern day approach to the ...
Harrington's most recent monograph, Dangerous Mystic, [3] provides a focused study of the life and teachings of the famous medieval friar Meister Eckhart. His third monograph, The Faithful Executioner, [ 4 ] adopted a similar approach for the life and times of a sixteenth-century German executioner.