Meister Eckhart's Sermons

Name: Meister Eckhart's Sermons
Author: Johannes Eckhart

Johannes Eckhart (c. 1260 – c. 1328), known as Meister Eckhart, was a German Dominican friar, theologian, and mystic. He taught at Paris and preached across Germany, and his daring sermons on the soul's union with God made him the most influential of the German mystics. Meister Eckhart's Sermons presents his vernacular preaching, which explores detachment, the birth of the Word in the soul, and stillness before God.

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First published: 1320
Category: Devotional
Length: 12k words · about 1 hour
Chapters: 8
Narration: 🎧 Volunteer Readers

About this book

Sermons by Meister Eckhart, the German Dominican preacher and thinker of the early fourteenth century, in Claud Field's English translation of 1909. Preached in the vernacular to nuns and laypeople, the sermons explore the birth of God in the soul, detachment from created things, and the ground where God and soul meet. They are brief, dense, and often startling.