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Meister Eckhart

Born
c. 1260
Died
1328

German Dominican theologian, twice regent master at Paris and provincial of Saxony, whose vernacular sermons on detachment and the birth of God in the soul made him the founding figure of Rhineland mysticism; some of his propositions were condemned in 1329.

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Seven German sermons of the Dominican mystic Meister Eckhart in Claud Field's translation, on the attraction of God, the nearness of the kingdom, true hearing, God's self-communication, sanctification and outward and inward morality; some of Eckhart's propositions were condemned in 1329.
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