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2 reviews
Robert K. C. Forman

Element Books, 1991

Meister Eckhart understood.
The great Christian mystic, Meister Eckhart, has puzzled scholars for 650 years. Robert Forman has found a way to unlock his writings. In "high ramification" or stilted language, Eckhart develops his philosophical ideas. But in "low ramification" or ordinary language, Eckhart communicates his mystical experience. By using this method of sorting out Eckhart's writings, Forman is able to ...

Meister Eckhart, Mystic and Philosopher: Translations With Commentary (Studies in Phenomenology and ...

2 reviews
Reiner Schurmann, Eckhart

Indiana Univ Pr, 1978

This book blew me away, phenomenologically speaking...
Schurmann begins with fairly straightforward commentary about Eckhart's sermons, then expands and amplifies the discussion by placing his words into a larger context of contemporary thought. I found his commentary to be quite literally mind blowing, albeit very difficult & slow reading. Anyone who desires to find the roots of phenomenology in early 13th century mysticism will love this book -- ...

Passion for Creation: The Earth-honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart

4 reviews
Matthew Fox

Inner Traditions, 2000

Spiritual food for starving souls
I began reading excerpts from Fox's book on Eckhart several years ago on a backpacking trip. Each page seemed like a delicious morsel of spiritual food to roll around inside my heart and savor. The full text is presented in Fox's four path's of creation spirituality. Fox's commentary is deep, eloquent and helpful. Eckhart's writings on "letting go and letting be" take us very close to a ...

Meister Eckhart, the essential sermons, commentaries, treatises, and defense (The Classics of Western ...

4 reviews
Eckhart

Paulist Press, 1981

A great introduction to Eckhart
This is an excellent translation of some of Meister Eckhart's finest works and is highly recommended as is McGinn's in this series. Eckhart is one of the greatest apothatic Christian mystics and both Eckhart titles in 'Classics of Western Spirituality Series' are a great place to start to read His works. If you want all of His sermons then buy O'C Walshe's 'Sermons and treaties'. For a study of ...

Meister Eckhart

1 review

Gracewing, 1995

The man from whom God nothing hid
Eckhart shows us the vastness of God in a way that leaves the reader awestruck. He opens the consciousness and leads us on a journey that will forever change the way you view God and live your life.

Introducing Meister Eckhart

1 review
Michael Demkovich

Novalis, 2005

Context is Key
"The context is the text," or so a wizened old prof of mine used to say. There could be no more apt a description of Father Michael Demkovich's new Introducing Meister Eckhart. Demkovich places Eckhart squarely in the midst of a late thirteenth and early fourteenth century cultural, historical, and theological context. Eckhart is, for Demkovich, no New Age Gnostic or esoteric mystic, but a ...

Meister Eckhart: Sermons and Treatises

2 reviews
Meister Eckhart

Lilian Barber Press, 1987

Best Integration of East and West
I met Meister Eckhart as if for the first time this weekend at a Zenkai, a short meditation retreat, in Seattle. The teacher gave a talk comparing the thoughts of Dogen, Bankei, and other Zen Masters with Eckhart's. Her reference was this marvelous translation by M.O. Walshe. When she teaches in Germany she says that her students recommend the Walshe edition over all others for the its ...

Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)

7 reviews
Meister Eckhart

Penguin Classics, 1995

The best single volume I have seen
There are a lot of Meister Eckart books around, but this is the best I have seen. The introduction is especially illuminating. Oliver Davies dispenses with scholastic writings and materials related to the heresy charges, focusing, chronologically, on instructional works and sermons. The Meister Eckhart that emerges from these pages is one who, while taking good works and devotional practices for ...

Meister Eckhart, Vol .1: Teacher and Preacher

2 reviews
Bernard McGinn, Frank Tobin, ...

Paulist Press, 1986

Great medieval mystic and philosopher
Meister Eckhart has become something of a spiritual celebrity these days; one often finds him discussed widely in many forums interested in spirituality, or discussed by members of Eastern religions who seem interested to draw parallells between Eckhart and Eastern philosophy, or in philosophers who find Eckhart's often bold, Zen-like pronouncements baffling and strange. Eckhart was ...

Watch For The Light: Readings For Advent And Christmas

14 reviews
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, John Donne, ...

Orbis Books, 2004

Loved it!!
I love that this series, including "Bread and Wine:Readings for Lent and Easter," because it challeneges our complacent culture-dictated experience of Advent and Easter. This is not a feel-good book, it is a faith-building book. Be prepared to be shaken up and for God to meet you in a new way. I bought copies for my friends and family. Everyone loved it! The diversity of authors come ...

Meister Eckhart: A modern translation (Harper torchbooks)

7 reviews
Eckhart

Harper & Row, 1970

If The Only Prayer I Ever Prayed Was 'Thanks'....It Would Be Enough
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." Wow. I love that. I really, really love that because it really allows me to know, to feel, to sense at such a deep and centered level of my being, that really, God has given me everything that I could possibly want or need or desire; it's always right where I am because the Holy (the Whole of) Spirit is ...

Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing: Sermons, Writings, and Sayings

1 review

New Seeds, 2005

The Ultimate and the Divine Spark
While I had read about Eckhart for years, I was apprehensive about delving deeper into his actual writings. That is why this book is such a pleasant surprise, for the author has "moved a lot of soil" to get at his finest moments. Not only that, but since Eckhart was a mystic in the deepest sense, his meaning is perhaps clearer than that of any other medieval mind, for all true mystics are united ...

Paths to Transcendence: According to Shankara, Ibn Arabi & Meister Eckhart (Spiritual Masters. East and West)

1 review
Reza Shah-Kazemi

World Wisdom, 2006

A "chef d'oeuvre"
This long-awaited book certainly represents one of the more important work recently released by World Wisdom. Reza Shah-Kazemi is a Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and one of the most preeminent contemporary Perennialist writers. Although initially written as a Doctoral Thesis, this book is dedicated to the memory of Frithjof Schuon, and presented here as a ...

Meister Eckhart from Whom God Hid Nothing

5 reviews
David O'Neal

Shambhala, 1996

The summit of Christian Neoplatonism
Eckhart was,among others, progenitor of western dialectics and mystical tradition. Neoplatonism, contrary to Aristotle's thought, was a liberating movement during late Middle Ages (I'm not talking about the formative period of Christianity)and the Renaissance, leading to advancement both in philosophy, arts and science.It wasn't for nothing that scientific discoveries ran parallel with attacks ...

Meditations with Meister Eckhart

5 reviews
Matthew Fox

Bear & Company, 1983

Excellent and inspiring meditation thoughts
This book is small only in size. It is one of the best and most inspiring of guides to meditation. Meister Eckhart lived in the 14th century, yet his writings, especially those chosen in this book, are amazingly up to date. The beauty of the poetic expression leads the reader to that quiet place of beauty and joy and peace, helping the heart to open and expand, and transcending all to be: ...

Everything as Divine: The Wisdom of Meister Eckhart (Spiritual Samplers)

2 reviews
Edmund Colledge, Bernard McGinn

Paulist Press, 1996

Lovely Sampling of Meister Eckhart's Work
**** This is a little book---only about 80 pages---and 5" by 4" and 1/5 inches thick. It fits in your purse or back pocket and is easy to carry anywhere and read bit by bit anytime, or all at once! As such a small volume, it is a manageable introduction to a deep spiritual teacher, containing a brief introduction, four sermons, and 22 "counsels" which are brief essays exploring a particular ...

The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart: The Man from Whom God Hid Nothing (A Herder & Herder Book)

5 reviews
Bernard McGinn

Herder & Herder, 2003

Scholarly AND clear
This book represents one of those only too rare marriages of high scholarship and unambiguous clarity. While the concepts discussed are often difficult, Bernard McGinn's explanations and discussions regarding them are easily followed. The reader has to contend only with his own limitations in dealing with subtle and abstract subject matter. Bernard McGinn's fine scholarship and great skills of ...

Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought

1 review
John Caputo

Fordham University Press, 1986

A comparison of Heigegger's later thought to Meister Eckhart
John Caputo investigates the claim of many modern philosphers that Heidegger became a mystic in the latter part of his life. Caputo performs a careful analysis of this claim by looking at the writings of Heidegger as they relate to a true German mystic, Meister Eckhart. Does Heidegger's relationship between being and Being equate to Eckhart's soul and God? Does his use of "Gelassenheit", a ...

The Most Rapid and Direct Means to Eternal Bliss (One)

10 reviews
Michael Langford

The Freedom Religion, Inc., 2006

Instruction manual for enlightenment!
From the Introduction chapter of the book... "11.It is possible to be free of all sorrow and suffering and to experience absolutely perfect infinite eternal joy here and now in this lifetime. 12.It is possible for all humans, not just a few humans. 13.There is a rapid means to infinite bliss. 14. That rapid means is taught in this book." This book is unique ...

Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation

5 reviews
Eckhart

Doubleday, 1980

Herein you will find the 'solid food' of the spiritual life.
Few books have moved me like this one. All the elements of the spiritual life are laid out in 37 wonderful sermons by an inspiring mystic of the 13th century, Meister Echkhart, complete with commentary by Matthew Fox. Detachment, Letting Go, the Transcendant and Immanent Diety, the divine inheritance of humanity, and more. Now, if they could only put it back in print!

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