Key ideas
The key ideas of Meister Eckhart
Seven ideas that run through his sermons, each explained plainly and shown in his own words.
Detachment
What Eckhart means by detachment, why he ranks it above love and humility, and why it is not coldness toward the world.
Letting-be
What Eckhart meant by letting-be, why it is not passivity, and how the German word Gelassenheit later reached Heidegger.
The ground of the soul
Eckhart's claim that God's ground and the soul's ground are one ground. What he meant, why it alarmed his judges, and where to read it.
The spark of the soul
Eckhart's vunkelin: the spark or little castle in the soul untouched by time and flesh. Where the image appears across his sermons, with his own words.
The birth of God in the soul
Eckhart's Christmas theme: the eternal birth of the Word in the ground of the soul, and what he asks of anyone who wants it to happen in them.
The Godhead beyond God
Why Eckhart distinguishes God from the Godhead, what he means by the desert of the Godhead, and his prayer to be rid of God for God's sake.
Living without a why
Eckhart on acting sunder warumbe, life rooted in its own ground, and why the famous rose without why is not his line but Angelus Silesius's.
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