The Life, Selected Sermons and Treaties

Download or read book The Life, Selected Sermons and Treaties written by Meister Eckehart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of Eckhart in the history of scholastic philosophy is considerable. At that period all the efforts of religious philosophy were directed to widen theology, and to effect reconciliation between reasons and faith. The fundamental idea of Eckhart's philosophy is that of the Absolute or Abstract Unity conceived as the sole real existence. His God is the agnostic of the Neo-Platonist: He is absolutely devoid of attributes.God is incomprehensible, in fact, with regard to our limited intelligence, God is the origin and end of every being.Of the Absolute we have no cognizance but only of phenomena, but by the resolute endeavor to abstract ourselves from time and space, we can, according to Eckhart, at rare moments, attain to the Absolute by virtue of what he calls the spark (Funkelein) of the soul, which comes direct from God? This is really God acting in man, to know God is to be one with God. Within these pages you will discover the life of the man, the issues regarding the myths and the facts.