Reden der Unterweisung

by Eckhart Meister, edited by Volker Leppin

Book cover: Reden der Unterweisung

Extent: 180 pages

Publisher: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Grosse Texte der Christenheit

Series volume number: 8

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(January 2020)

ISBN: 9783374061273

Price: $20.00

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Meister Eckhart (1328) was the central figure within the so called Rhenish mysticism. When he served as the prior of the Dominican monastery at Erfurt in the late thirteenth century, he wrote the treatise presented here in modern German. Here, we find him more as a spiritual counselor than as a speculative philosopher who answers to questions and problems raised by his brothers. Against a background of mystical interior piety, he traces the issues of monastic as well as average Christian behavior. He speaks about human sinfulness as well as about imitation of Christ and the communion in the Lord’s Supper. The commentaries reveal the historical context of the treatise as well as its impact on our days as a handbook of Christian life.

  • By (author) Eckhart Meister
  • Edited by Volker Leppin