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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Selected Writings (Penguin Classics)by: Meister Eckhart  List Price: $16.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.88 You Save: $5.12 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 248.22 EAN: 9780140433432 ISBN: 0140433430 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: March 01, 1995 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-1327) are some of the most powerful medieval attempts to achieve a synthesis between ancient Greek thought and the Christian faith. Writing with great rhetorical brilliance, Eckhart combines the neoplatonic concept of oneness - the idea that the ultimate principle of the universe is single and undivided - with his Christian belief in the Trinity, and considers the struggle to describe a perfect God through the imperfect medium of language. Fusing philosophy and religion with vivid originality and metaphysical passion, these works have intrigued and inspired philosophers and theologians from Hegel to Heidegger and beyond. Average Rating:
 Rating: - "Love essentially resides in the will alone, so that whoever has more will, has more of love."I have not read anything by Eckhart before I read this selection by Oliver Davies for Penguin. I have since read by many that the Paulist Press collections are considered to be a better grouping. This does not surprise me, the primary purpose of the Penguins being a good introduction for the many people rather than designed to appeal to the scholar or expert. I found it a good first encounter, and there does not seem to be any criticism that the Davies is either misleading in what it collects or ... Read More Rating: - Pleasing and Profound!If anything else, Eckhart is completely entertaining to read. This is an excellent selection of what may be his greatest and most compelling contribution to Christian mysticism--namely, his vernacular sermons! If one would like a better comprehension of the Meister's intellectual landscape, I recommend Bernard McGinn's, "The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart." Rating:  - Fairly good selection of Eckhart's worksThis edition of Meister Eckhart capitalises on the strengths of Penguin books; slim volumes which are fairly inexpensive and contain reasonably good scholarly introductions and notes. This edition contains the German Dominican mystic's German sermons, including several ones which deal with key Eckhartian themes, such as the distinction between 'God' and the 'Godhead', the birth of the Word in the soul, and others. While not as good as the Paulist Press editions of Eckhart's works, ... Read More Rating: - woweckhart reads like a combination of an open-minded seeker-pope and a buddhist or taoist master. this book was a wild introduction for me to a very interesting thinker, unfortunately one mostly hidden among the jutting rocks of religious history. Rating: - The best single volume I have seenThere are a lot of Meister Eckart books around, but this is the best I have seen. The introduction is especially illuminating. Oliver Davies dispenses with scholastic writings and materials related to the heresy charges, focusing, chronologically, on instructional works and sermons. The Meister Eckhart that emerges from these pages is one who, while taking good works and devotional practices for granted, is so immersed in the Christianized, Neo-Platonic inner life, that he appears, at times, totally ... Read More 
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