Meister Eckhart (c. 1260–1328), Dominican, twice regent master at Paris, provincial of Saxony, and the boldest of the German mystics. He preached in the vernacular on the birth of the Word in the ground of the soul, in language that his judges found impossible to distinguish from pantheism; twenty-eight propositions were condemned in 1329, after his death, and he has been argued over ever since.
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- Sermons — The first English rendering of a selection of Eckhart’s German sermons: the birth of the Word in the soul, detachment, and the ground of the soul where, he says, God and the soul are one. Some of these sentences were among the propositions condemned by the bull In agro dominico in 1329. (8 notes)