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Meister Eckhart

Christian mysticism · Christian mysticism · Dominican

German Dominican priest, theologian and mystic (c. 1260 – c. 1328) from Thuringia, whose German sermons on detachment and the ground of the soul were examined for heresy at the end of his life and have been read ever since.

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Meister Eckhart

German Dominican priest, theologian and mystic (c. 1260 – c. 1328) from Thuringia, whose German sermons on detachment and the ground of the soul were examined for heresy at the end of his life and have been read ever since.

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