Prenant la suite de L'Étincelle de l'âmeL'Étincelle de l'âme, voici le deuxième volume des sermons allemands de Maître Eckhart, traduits et présentés par Gwendoline Jarczyk et Pierre-Jean Labarrière. Nous y retrouvons, avec force et éclat, le maître dominicain dans sa double fonction d'enseignant et de prédicateur.
Invitation au dépaysement d'une expérience intérieure essentielle, ces trente sermons procèdent de la conviction que Dieu et l'homme sont Un.Dieu et l'homme sont Un. Maître Eckhart y déploie une pensée mystique qui cherche à tout moment à promouvoir, dans une sorte d'aller et retour, une valorisation conjointe et de l'homme et de Dieu.
Témoignage d'une aventure spirituelle d'une rare intensité, ces sermons proposent toute la palette expressive de Maître Eckhart, indissociablement poète, mystique et philosophe.
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