On the Lord’s Prayer

Meister Eckhart

On the Lord’s Prayer

Paru en janvier 2011

Peeters

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356 pages - 16,5 × 24,5 cm
ISBN 978-90-429-2584-7 - janvier 2011

Présentation

This rather short text by Eckhart has been available in a critical edition for decades, but has been rarely read and studied, regarded by its editor as a mediocre piece of the young Eckhart. It is, indeed, a strangely looking work, almost entirely a cut-and-paste piece from Thomas Aquinas’Golden Chain. A close study of Eckhart’s commentary, however, gives insights into his reception of the Patristic tradition, his dealing with Thomas’choice and provides a masterpiece of Eckhart’s teaching on prayer. He himself held his work in high regard and used it when writing trinitarian homilies