Auteurs d'un remarquable Maître EckhartMaître Eckhart ou l'empreinte du désert'empreinte du désert, Gwendoline Jarczyk et Pierre-Jean Labarrière présentent ici, après celle des TraitésTraités, la traduction des trente premiers sermons du maître dominicain. Le grand mystique se montre, dans ses prédications en moyen-haut allemand, plus accessible que dans son oeuvre latine. Eckhart, en effet, connaît parfaitement les ressources du genre homilétique, et a une foi sans limites dans la puissance d'éveil que recèle le verbe humain. Il tente de traduire dans ses sermons ses fulgurantes intuitions métaphysiques à destination d'un public de moniales et de béguines. Mais, dans le même temps, il touche une dimension éternelle de l'âme humaine, qui lui permet de parler, aujourd'hui encore, au coeur de tous ceux qui se sont mis en quête d'une authentique liberté intérieure.
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