Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within

Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within

Life and times of the 14th century German spiritual leaderÂ Meister Eckhart, whose theory of a personal path to the divine inspired thinkers from Jean Paul Sartre to Thomas Merton, and most recently, Eckhart Tolle

Meister Eckhart was a medieval Christian mystic whose wisdom powerfully appeals to seekers seven centuries after his death. In the modern era, Eckhart's writings have struck a chord with thinkers as diverse as Heidegger, Merton, Sartre, John Paul II, and the current Dalai Lama. He is the inspiration for the bestselling New Age author Eckhart Tolle's pen name, and his fourteenth-century quotes have become an online sensation. Today a variety of Christians, as well as many Zen Buddhists, Sufi Muslims, Jewish Cabbalists, and various spiritual seekers, all claim Eckhart as their own. Meister Eckhart preached a personal, internal path to God at a time when the Church could not have been more hierarchical and ritualistic. Then and now, Eckhartâ€™s revolutionary method of direct access to ultimate reality offers a profoundly subjective approach that is at once intuitive and pragmatic, philosophical yet non-rational, and, above all, universally accessible. This â€œdangerous mysticâ€™sâ€ teachings challenge the very nature of religion, yet the man himself never directly challenged the Church.
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Eckhart was one of the most learned theologians of his day, but he was also a man of the world who had worked as an administrator for his religious order and taught for years at the University of Paris. His personal path from conventional friar to professor to lay preacher culminated in a spiritual philosophy that combined the teachings of an array of pagan and Christian writers, as well as Muslim and Jewish philosophers.Â His revolutionary decision to take his approach to the common people garnered him many enthusiastic followers as well as powerful enemies.Â After Eckhartâ€™s death and papal censure, many religious women and clerical supporters, known as the Friends of God, kept his legacy alive through the centuries, albeit underground until the masterâ€™s dramatic rediscovery by modern Protestants and Catholics.
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Dangerous Mystic grounds Meister Eckhart in a world that is simultaneously familiar and alien. In the midst of this medieval society, a few decades before the Black Death, Eckhart boldly preached to captivated crowds a timeless method, a â€œwayless way,â€ of directly experiencing the divine.
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781101981566
Color White
ReleaseDate 2018-03-20
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781101981566

Country	USA
Brand	Penguin
Manufacturer	Penguin Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781101981566
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2018-03-20
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781101981566

Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart's Path to the God Within

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