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Eckhart was probably born around 1260 in the village of Tambach, near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia, [10] perhaps between 1250 and 1260. [11] It was previously asserted that he was born to a noble family of landowners, but this originated in a misinterpretation of the archives of the period. [12]
The Sister Catherine Treatise is often cited, along with Marguerite Porete's The Mirror of Simple Souls, as one of the representative literary expressions of the Heresy of the Free Spirit, which held that a divine union with God was possible to people in this life and, more controversially, independently of the ministrations of the Church.
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. ...
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 ...
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) is a German-born writer and public speaker living in Canada. Eckhart von Hochheim, aka Meister Eckhart, a German theologian and philosopher; Mason Eckhart, a comic book character; Eckhart, a Canadian animated children's TV show; Eckhart Branch Railroad, early short line railroad
In the latter field he has contributed major studies, but also discoveries of new texts by Meister Eckhart (four more Parisian Questions and others), provided the Biblical Index to the critical edition of Eckhart’s works in the Klostermann edition (Stuttgart), editions, translations and commentaries to Eckhart’s works.
He then went to Germany and received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Marburg with a thesis on the Western Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart. He returned to Kyoto University to teach philosophy of religion. In 1976, He was awarded a Doctor of Letters (文学博士, Bungaku-Hakushi). He later focused on the thought of Kitaro Nishida.