title: Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense (Classics of Western Spirituality)
author:  Meister Eckhart 
description: The thought of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327), Dominican philosopher and spiritual master, is among the most daring and difficult in the history of Western mysticism.
zlib_text: Meister Eckhart's Sermons
  Author(s):
  Eckhart, Johannes (c. 1260-1327)
  Field, Claud (Translator)
  Publisher:
  Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library
  Description:
  Meister Eckhart was a fourteenth century Dominican monk.
  Considered a forerunner to the Reformation, he was an es-
  tablished theologian, and as a result had a profound impact
  upon medieval scholasticism mostly through his sermons.
  Meister Eckhart's Sermons contains some of his short ser-
  mons.The sermons themselves are in relatively plain English.
  In them, Eckhart flirts with some controversial topics. He
  describes the soul as "laying hold" of God in a mystical
  manner, so that there is "no distinction" between God and
  the soul. Indeed, some of his more radical teachings were
  eventually condemned by a papal council as heretical. But
  Eckhart does illustrate a way to synthesize one's religious
  belief with one's philosophy. Interesting and demanding,
  Meister Eckhart's Sermons will challenge a person's concep-
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