Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Drawing on the latest European Research on Meister Eckhart since 1970, the volume provides a comprehensive rereading of the Life, Works, Career, Trial of Meister Eckhart. Central Philosophical ideas and sources with an account of his preaching, teaching and the reception of his work from the 14th to the 21st century.

Introduction to part one : A companion to Meister Eckhart / Bernard McGinn -- Meister Eckhart's life, training, career, and trial / Walter Senner -- Eckhart's Latin works / Alessandra Beccarisi -- Eckhart as preacher, administrator, and master of the Sentences, from Erfurt to Paris and Back : 1294-1313. The origins of the Opus tripartitum / Loris Sturlese -- Eckhart's German works / Dagmar Gottschall -- The theory of the Transcendentals in Meister Eckhart / Tamar Tsopurashvili -- From Aquinas to Eckhart on creation, creature, and analogy / Jeremiah Hackett and Jennifer Hart Weed -- Eckhart's anthropology / Udo Kern -- Eckhart's Islamic and Jewish sources : Avicenna, Avicebron, and Averroes / Alessandro Palazzo -- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Eckhart / Elisa Rubino -- Introduction to part two : Meister Eckhart as preacher and theologian / Paul A. Dietrich -- Meister Eckhart's Latin Biblical exegesis / Donald F. Duclow -- Meister Eckhart's vernacular preaching / Bruce Milem -- Meister Eckhart's understanding of God / Markus Enders -- Meister Eckhart and Moses Maimonides : From Judaeo-Arabic Rationalism to Christian mysticism / Yossef Schwartz -- Eckhart and the world of women's spirituality in the context of the "free spirit" and Marguerite Porete / Lydia Wegener -- The mirror of simple souls : The ethics of Margaret Porette / Jack C. Marler -- Introduction to part three / Jeremiah Hackett -- The reception of Meister Eckhart in 14th-Century Germany / Nadia Bray -- Eckhart and the vernacular tradition : Pseudo-Eckhart and Eckhart legends / Dagmar Gottschall -- Meister Eckhart's influence on Nicholas of Cusa : A survey of the literature / Elizabeth Brient -- On a dangerous trail : Henry Suso and the condemnations of Meister Eckhart / Fiorella Retucci -- Meister Eckhart and Valentin Weigel / Andrew Weeks -- Eckhart reception in the 19th Century / Cyril O'Regan -- Meister Eckhart in 20th-Century philosophy / Dermot Moran -- Epilogue : Meister Eckhart -- Between mysticism and philosophy / Karl Albert -- Appendix: Dominican education / Walter Senner.

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