Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics

About this book

An anthology of selections from the German mystics of the fourteenth century — Eckhart, Tauler, Suso, and their circle — chosen and introduced by W. R. Inge and published in 1904. The extracts gather the Rhineland school's teaching on the birth of God in the soul, detachment, and the life of love. A compact doorway into medieval German devotion.

Contents

1. 1. The Precursors of the German Mystics
2. 2. Meister Eckhardt
3. 3. Eckhardt's Religious Philosophy 🔒
4. 4. The German Mystics as Guides to Holiness 🔒
5. 5. Writers of the School of Eckhard–Tauler 🔒
6. 6. Suso 🔒
7. 7. Ruysbroek 🔒
8. 8. Theologia Germanica 🔒
9. 9. Modern Mysticism 🔒
10. 10. Specimens of Modern Mysticism 🔒
11. God 🔒
12. Rest Only in God 🔒
13. God is Always Ready 🔒
14. Grace 🔒
15. The Will 🔒
16. Surrender of the Will 🔒
17. Suffering 🔒
18. Sin 🔒
19. Contentment 🔒
20. Detachment 🔒
21. Prayer 🔒
22. Love of Our Neighbor 🔒
23. Love 🔒
24. The Union with God 🔒
25. The Last Judgment 🔒
26. Precept and Practice 🔒
27. Relics 🔒
28. Sayings of Eckhardt 🔒
29. Our Aim 🔒
30. Consequences of the Fall 🔒
31. The Fall 🔒
32. Life as a Battle 🔒
33. Sin 🔒
34. Fishing for Souls 🔒
35. The Efficacy of Dive Grace 🔒
36. Prayer 🔒
37. The First Word 🔒
38. The Second Word 🔒
39. The Third Word 🔒
40. The Fourth Word 🔒
41. The Fifth Word 🔒
42. The Sixth Word 🔒
43. The Seventh Word 🔒
44. Suso and His Spiritual Daughter 🔒
45. A Meditation on the Passion of Christ 🔒
46. Aphorisms and Maxims 🔒
47. Sin and Selfishness 🔒
48. The Two Eyes 🔒
49. A Foretaste of Eternal Life 🔒
50. Descent into Hell 🔒
51. The Three Stages 🔒
52. The Life of Christ 🔒
53. Union with God 🔒
54. The False Light 🔒
55. Light and Love 🔒
56. Paradise 🔒
57. Will and Self-Will 🔒
58. Union Through Christ 🔒