page_title: Johannes Tauler
section_title: Sermons
hierarchical_section_title: Johannes Tauler / Sermons
caption_attribution_description: Johannes Tauler: Predig, fast fruchtbar zu eim recht christlichen leben, Basel, (Petri für Rynmann), 1522 Holzschnitt-Titelbordüre von Hans Holbein (erstmals Basel 1517 für Dat Boek des hillighen Evangelij des Hieronymus benutzt) mit Evangelistensymbolen, die hl. Petrus und Paulus und den Kirchenvätern Gregor, Augustinus, Ambrosius und Hieronymus.
context_page_description: Johannes Tauler OP was a German mystic, a Roman Catholic priest and a theologian. A disciple of Meister Eckhart, he belonged to the Dominican order. Tauler was known as one of the most important Rhineland mystics. He promoted a certain neo-platonist dimension in the Dominican spirituality of his time.
context_section_description: Tauler leaves no formal treatises, either in Latin or the vernacular. Rather, he leaves around eighty sermons.
  Tauler's sermons began to be collected in his own lifetime - three fourteenth-century manuscripts date from around the time of Tauler's return to Strasbourg after his exile in Basel.
  Tauler's sermons were printed first in Leipzig in 1498, reprinted in 1508 at Augsburg, and then again with additions from Eckhart and others at Basel (1521 and 1522), at Halberstadt (1523), at Cologne (1543), and in Lisbon (1551). A Latin translation was printed first at Cologne in 1548 and 1553. In the nineteenth century, editions were produced by Julius Hamberger (Frankfurt, 1864) and Ferdinand Vetter (Berlin, 1910, reprinted Dublin/Zürich, 1968).
  Tauler was famous for his sermons, which were considered among the noblest in the German language—not as emotional as Henry Suso's, nor as speculative as Eckhart's, but rather intensely practical, and touching on all sides the deeper problems of the moral and spiritual life.
  Tauler was one of several notable Christian universalists in the Middle Ages, along with Amalric of Bena and John of Ruysbroeck.  He taught that "All beings exist through the same birth as the Son, and therefore shall they all come again to their original, that is, God the Father."
caption: 1522 title page of Tauler's sermons, by Holbein
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