Meister Eckhart on divine knowledge
By: by C.F. Kelley.
Publisher: Frog Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781583942529
Subjects: Eckhart, -- Meister, -- d. 1327; Mysticism -- Germany -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Description: "Explicates the mystical teachings of Dominican theologian Meister Eckhart"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1977.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Preparatory considerations; title: Difficulties and misconceptions; title: The chief difficulty; title: Intellectual influences on Eckhart; title: The special influence of St. Thomas Aquinas; title: The distinction between primary and secondary; title: Basic misconceptions; title: The reality of the divine self; title: "I am a knower"; title: The reality of God; title: "My truest I is God"; title: "God is neither this nor that"; title: This sacred universe; title: Detached intellectuality; title: Part II: The doctrine; title: God and the human self; title: Principial manifestation; title: God as pure spirit; title: The extended order of the human self; title: The delusive reality of the human self; title: The negation of negations is divine; title: Affirmation; title: The Word; title: The Triune Godhead; title: The ground of the intellective soul; title: Principially I am the son; title: The divine spark; title: Within the Word; title: The primal distinction; title: The existential hierarchy; title: Nonduality; title: Isness and whatness; title: The simple now of eternity; title: The reflection of unrestricted isness; title: The inversion; title: Inverse analogy; title: The primacy of knowledge; title: Distinction and identity; title: Divine necessity; title: The veils of God; title: The five veils; title: The practical awareness and enlightened awareness; title: The contemplative state; title: The ultimate realization; title: The detachment; title: The pre-eminence of detachment; title: Poverty of spirit; title: The nothingness of the human self; title: The transposition by transcendent act.