Meister Eckhart on the Principle: An Analysis of the Principium in His Latin Works

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-90-429-3253-1
Verlag: PEETERS PUB

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 297 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Eckhart: Texts and Studies

"What is this 'principle' (principium) in which God is said to have created heaven and earth?" This is the first question Eckhart poses at the very beginning of his Commentary on Genesis. In the course of this book a space is opened up in order to speak about the relationship between God and creation in a 'principial' way. Tracing the concept as it is used throughout his Latin (and, on occasion, German) works, the panoply and resonance of its use establish the necessary place of principium within the vocabulary of Eckhart's metaphysics of creation and generation. Ranging from the nature of being to the question of what constitutes human personhood, the 'principle' serves to identify Eckhart's teaching on the mutual compenetration between God and man.

This book has been awarded the FIIT Manfred Lautenschlaeger Prize for Theological Promise by the University of Heidelberg.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wojtulewicz, Cm

Wojtulewicz, C.M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie