Wandering Joy
Subtitle: Meister Eckhart’s Mystical Philosophy
By: translation and commentary by Reiner Schürmann ; foreword by David Appelbaum.
Contributors: Schürmann, Reiner, 1941-
Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Great Barrington, MA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Maître Eckhart ou la joie errante
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780970109712
Subjects: Eckhart, Meister, d. 1327; Catholic Church -- Sermons; Mysticism -- Sermons; Sermons, German -- Translations into English; Sermons, Medieval -- Germany; Sermons, German -- History and criticism; Mysticism -- Germany -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Philosophy, Medieval
Genres: Sermons.; Translations into English.
Other titles: Master Eckhart and the Wandering Joy
Description: In this remarkable work, Reiner Schürmann shows Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century Christian mystic, as the great teacher of the birth of God in the soul, which shatters the dualism between God and the world, the self and God. This is an exposition of Eckhar's mysticism-perhaps the best in English-and, because Eckhart is a profound philosopher for whom knowing precedes being, it is also an exemplary work of contemporary philosophy. Schürmann shows us that Eckhart is our contemporary. He describes the threefold movement of detachment, release, and "dehiscence" (splitting open), which leads to the experience of "living without a why," in which all things are in God and sheer joy. Going beyond that, he describes the transformational force of approaching the Godhead, the God beyond God: "A man who has experienced the same no longer has a place to establish himself. He has settled on the road, and for those who have learned how to listen, his existence becomes a call. This errant one dwells in joy. Through his wanderings the origin beckons."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-264).
Table of contents: title: FOREWORD by David Appelbaum
pagenum: ix; title: INTRODUCTION
pagenum: xvii; title: CHAPTER ONE; title: SERMON, “JESUS ENTERED”
pagenum: 3; title: ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY
pagenum: 9; title: What Does It Mean “To Be Virgin?”
pagenum: 9; title: A New Commerce with Things: Detachment
pagenum: 13; title: The Birth of the Son in Detachment
pagenum: 18; title: The Divine Destiny of the Intellect
pagenum: 26; title: The Divine Destiny of the Will
pagenum: 38; title: The Divine Destiny of the Ground of the Mind
pagenum: 41; title: SERMON, “HE WHO HATES HIS SOUL IN THIS WORLD”
pagenum: 46; title: CHAPTER TWO; title: SERMON, “WOMAN, THE HOUR IS COMING”
pagenum: 53; title: ANALYSIS
pagenum: 57; title: Time, the Body, Nothingness
pagenum: 58; title: Living Without Why
pagenum: 61; title: General and Individual Perfections
pagenum: 62; title: Motus and “Breakthrough”
pagenum: 65; title: The Higher Part of the Mind and Its Faculties
pagenum: 67; title: Birth of the Son and Equanimity
pagenum: 72; title: “God Must”
pagenum: 78; title: COMMENTARY: INTENSITIES OF RELEASEMENT
pagenum: 81; title: Dissimilarity
pagenum: 82; title: Similarity
pagenum: 89; title: SERMON, “LIKE A VASE OF MASSIVE GOLD”
pagenum: 96; title: Identity
pagenum: 101; title: Dehiscence
pagenum: 107; title: SERMON, “SAUL ROSE FROM THE GROUND”
pagenum: 119; title: CHAPTER THREE; title: SERMON, “SEE WHAT LOVE”
pagenum: 129; title: ANALYSIS
pagenum: 135; title: Union by Knowledge
pagenum: 135; title: Union by Participation
pagenum: 138; title: Exterior Knowledge and Interior Knowledge
pagenum: 142; title: Interior Knowledge and the Mind’s Being
pagenum: 145; title: Identity and Analogy of Grace
pagenum: 149; title: Identity and Analogy of Being
pagenum: 153; title: New Birth and Voluntary Annihilation
pagenum: 163; title: New Birth and Equanimity
pagenum: 165; title: Being the Son and Becoming the Son
pagenum: 167; title: COMMENTARY: THE UNDERSTANDING OF BEING IN MEISTER ECKHART
pagenum: 169; title: Identity and Analogy
pagenum: 169; title: Analogy According to Aristotle
pagenum: 170; title: Analogy According to Meister Eckhart
pagenum: 173; title: SERMON, “PROCLAIM THE WORD”
pagenum: 178; title: The Limits of the Analogical Understanding of Being
pagenum: 182; title: Wandering Identity (Meister Eckhart and Heidegger)
pagenum: 188; title: Conclusion: Releasement and “There Is”
pagenum: 206; title: SERMON, “BLESSED ARE THE POOR”
pagenum: 210; title: APPENDIX: Meister Eckhart and Zen Buddhism
pagenum: 217; title: NOTES
pagenum: 223; title: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
pagenum: 259