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Meister Eckhart
Eckhart von Hochheim, commonly known as Meister Eckhart, was a German Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher and mystic. He was born near Gotha in the Landgraviate of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire. He was a member of the Dominican Order.
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culture · German Catholic priest and philosopher (c. 1260–1328) · philosopher · theologian · university teacher · theology teacher · mystic · also Meister Eckhart, Eckhart
Born 1 January 1260 · Died 28 January 1328 · Q76548
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2026· 2 entries
Comic Basics: Every Movie and TV Show Leaving Hulu This Week, Including a Fun Action Movie Starring Aaron Eckhart
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2025· 3 entries
jpost.com: Venice Biennale stages Meister Eckhart's 'Commentary on the Gospel of John'
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WDR: Als Ketzer verfolgt, bis heute gelesen: Meister Eckhart
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SWR: Meister Eckhart – Prediger der Gelassenheit
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2019· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Meister Eckhart’s Book of Secrets: Meditations on Letting Go and Finding True Freedom
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2018· 1 entry
The Christian Century: How Christian was Meister Eckhart?
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2014· 2 entries
SRF: Meister Eckhart – der Philosoph des Christentums
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Publishers Weekly: Meister Eckhart: A Mystic Warrior for Our Times
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1989· 1 entry
Published a Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on some aspects of Christian meditation which opposed those who
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1960· 1 entry
However, a manuscript ("in agro dominico") was discovered containing six hundred excerpts from Eckhart, clearly deriving from an original made in the Cologne Dominican convent after the promulgation of the bull condemnin
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1923· 1 entry
Eckhart's Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense (also known as the Rechtsfertigung, or "vindicatory document") was re-published
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1891· 1 entry
Karl Eugen Neumann, who translated large parts of the Tripitaka, found parallels between Eckhart and Buddhism, which he published in Zwei buddhistische Suttas und ein Traktat Meister Eckharts (Two Buddhist Suttas and a t
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1857· 2 entries
Included seventeen vernacular treatises he considered to be written by Eckhart
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Of Eckhart's German sermons and treatises added greatly to this interest
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1329· 1 entry
Career landmark: In agro dominico.
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1328· 5 entries
Died 1328-01-28.
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“Only those who have dared to let go can dare to reenter.”
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“We shall find God in everything alike, and find God always alike in everything.”
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“We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.”
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“Unmovable disinterest brings man into likeness of God. ... To be full of things is to be empty of God; to be empty of things is to be full of God.”
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1307· 1 entry
Career landmark: vicar general (1307–1311).
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1303· 1 entry
Career landmark: provincial superior (1303–1311).
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1296· 1 entry
Career landmark: vicar (1296).
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1294· 1 entry
Career landmark: prior (1294–1298).
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1260· 1 entry
Born 1260-01-01.
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