Below are the best resources we could find on Christian Mysticism featuring meister eckhart.
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Interview of Professor Bernard McGinn on Christian Mysticism.
The method of direct access to the divine, according to Eckhart, depended on an individual letting go of all desires and images of God and becoming aware of the “divine spark” present within. - Joel Harrington
Meister Eckhart is an influential, and often surprising, Christian theologian/philosopher/mystics whose writings & sermons have both inspired future thinkers in the catholic church, but also been condemned by the pope as heretical.
A small book that gives a solid intro to Eckart's beliefs in paradox and mystery over reason and logic.
The reader will find in this book the clearest expression of the teachings of Karlfried Graf Durckheim. This book is a bestseller in Europe and has been translated into several languages.
In this luminous collection, Daniel Ladinsky—best known for his bestselling interpretations of the great Sufi poet Hafiz—brings together the timeless work of twelve of the world’s finest spiritual writers, six from the East and six from the West.
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The journey inward into the dark and silence is a trip into simplicity, Eckhart says, a letting go of all things—all forms and images and memories...
Johannes Eckhart was one of the greatest of Christian mystics. He was born at Hochheim in Thüringen, Germany, in 1260 and died c.1327. He entered the Dominican order when he was 15. Later he became a distinguished professor and taught at different universities.
Composed during a critical time in the evaluation of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between ancient Greek thought and Christian faith.
A succinct and very accessible summary of Eckhart’s teachings was given in a paper by John Orme Mills OP at the Eckhart Society One Day Conference in London in 2002. We present this here with some minor edits.
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