Meister Eckhart on the Principle

An Analysis of the principium in his Latin Works

By (author) C.M. Wojtulewicz

Book cover: Meister Eckhart on the Principle

Extent: 297 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Philosophy, Religious Studies

Series: Eckhart: Texts and Studies

Series volume number: 5

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2017)

ISBN: 9789042932531

Price: $108.00

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“What is this ‘principle’ (principium) in which God is said to have created heaven and earth?” This is the first question Eckhart poses at the very beginning of his Commentary on Genesis. In the course of this book a space is opened up in order to speak about the relationship between God and creation in a ‘principial’ way. Tracing the concept as it is used throughout his Latin (and, on occasion, German) works, the panoply and resonance of its use establish the necessary place of principium within the vocabulary of Eckhart’s metaphysics of creation and generation. Ranging from the nature of being to the question of what constitutes human personhood, the ‘principle’ serves to identify Eckhart’s teaching on the mutual compenetration between God and man.


“What is this ‘principle’ (principium) in which God is said to have created heaven and earth?” This is the first question Eckhart poses at the very beginning of his Commentary on Genesis. In the course of this book a space is opened up in order to speak about the relationship between God and creation in a ‘principial’ way. Tracing the concept as it is used throughout his Latin (and, on occasion, German) works, the panoply and resonance of its use establish the necessary place of principium within the vocabulary of Eckhart’s metaphysics of creation and generation. Ranging from the nature of being to the question of what constitutes human personhood, the ‘principle’ serves to identify Eckhart’s teaching on the mutual compenetration between God and man.

  • By (author) C.M. Wojtulewicz