The experience of God in the mystical language of Meister Eckhart
pp. 63-74
in: Enik Sepsi, Aniko Daróczi (eds), The immediacy of mystical experience in the European tradition, Berlin, Springer, 2017Abstract
We refer to Eckhart (1260–1328) today as "Meister" due to the originality of his thought and because he was professor at Paris and later teacher in Cologne at the Studium generale. He was also a popular preacher and an influential Christian mystic, and for his followers he was "the man, to whom God hid nothing.' These aspects reflect different activities: as "magister Aychardus" he gave lectures to students and fellow Dominicans; as "bruder Egghard" he was the spiritual leader of nuns for whom it was not necessary either to know Latin, or to study philosophy. How did he manage to communicate his mystical teachings to such different audiences?
