Eckhart comenta el prólogo del evangelio de san Juan desde una perspectiva bíblica pero también incorporando pensamientos e ideas de grandes filósofos y teólogos, como santo Tomás de Aquino, Alberto Magno, San Agustín, Proclo, Hugo de San Víctor, Dionisio Areopagita, y Averroes.
Una obra del siglo XIII que presenta el prólogo del evangelio como revelación de Dios del camino de encarnación del Verbo y la divinización humana.
Meister is German for "Master", referring to the academic title Magister in theologia he obtained in Paris. Coming into prominence during the decadent Avignon Papacy and a time of increased tensions between the Franciscans and Eckhart's Dominican Order of Preacher Friars, he was brought up on charges later in life before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition. Tried as a heretic by Pope John XXII, his "Defence" is famous for his reasoned arguments to all challenged articles of his writing and his refutation of heretical intent. He purportedly died before his verdict was received, although no record of his death or burial site has ever been discovered.
Meister Eckhart is sometimes (erroneously) referred to as "Johannes Eckhart", although Eckhart was his given name and von Hochheim was his surname.
"Perhaps no mystic in the history of Christianity has been more influential and more controversial than the Dominican Meister Eckart. Few, if any, mystics have been as challenging to modern day readers and as resistant to agreed-upon interpretation."
—Bernard McGinn, The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart... Show more