Like Rumi and Gautama Buddha, Dominican theologian Meister Eckhart (circa 1260-1328) is a spiritual philosopher whose words and ideas have wandered far from their source. His teachings have been taken ...

(The Conversation) — Once censured by a papal decree, Meister Eckhart, a 14th-century Dominican friar famous for his sermons on the direct experience of God, is again finding popular appeal. (The ...

Mark S. Burrows and Jon M. Sweeney. Hampton Roads, $16.95 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-57174-847-8 Poet Burrows and scholar Sweeney (Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart) collect meditations derived ...

I met Meister Eckhart in my midtwenties, by chance, as we say. I’d come across a passing reference to an old book on the Friends of God, a small reform movement that began in the 14th century (one of ...