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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | Eckhart, Meister; Eckhart, Meister; Eckhart, Meister |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
C F Kelley |
ISBN: | 9781583942529 1583942521 |
OCLC Number: | 212856469 |
Notes: | Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1977. |
Description: | xxv, 285 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Part I: Preparatory considerations -- Difficulties and misconceptions -- The chief difficulty -- Intellectual influences on Eckhart -- The special influence of St. Thomas Aquinas -- The distinction between primary and secondary -- Basic misconceptions -- The reality of the divine self -- "I am a knower" -- The reality of God -- "My truest I is God" -- "God is neither this nor that" -- This sacred universe -- Detached intellectuality -- Part II: The doctrine -- God and the human self -- Principial manifestation -- God as pure spirit -- The extended order of the human self -- The delusive reality of the human self -- The negation of negations is divine affirmation -- The Word -- The Triune Godhead -- The ground of the intellective soul -- Principially I am the son -- The divine spark -- Within the Word -- The primal distinction -- The existential hierarchy -- Nonduality -- Isness and whatness -- The simple now of eternity -- The reflection of unrestricted isness -- The inversion -- Inverse analogy -- The primacy of knowledge -- Distinction and identity -- Divine necessity -- The veils of God -- The five veils -- The practical awareness and enlightened awareness -- The contemplative state -- The ultimate realization -- The detachment -- The pre-eminence of detachment -- Poverty of spirit -- The nothingness of the human self -- The transposition by transcendent act -- Requisite supports. |
Responsibility: | C.F. Kelley. |
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Abstract:
"Explicates the mystical teachings of Dominican theologian Meister Eckhart"--Provided by publisher.
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