Meister Eckhart
Noun
Meaning
German Roman Catholic theologian and mystic (1260-1327)
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Examples
He likens it to Meister Eckhart 's "istigheit" or "is-ness", and Plato 's "Being" but not separated from "Becoming".
Mystics such as Meister Eckhart (d. 1327) and Thomas à Kempis (d. 1471) wrote works that taught the laity to focus on their inner spiritual life, which laid the groundwork for the Protestant Reformation.
Merton studied poetry at Columbia, and was “turned on like a pinball machine by Blake, Thomas Aquinas, Augustine, Meister Eckhart, Coomaraswamy, Traherne, Hopkins, Maritain, and the sacraments of the Catholic Church.”
The theologian and mystic Meister Eckhart (c. 1260 - 1328) entered Prediger Monastery around 1275.