![]() In later life, he was accused of heresy and brought up before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition, and tried as a heretic by Pope John XXII. ![]() He is lauded for his theistic works and his unusual views on God that is grounded on his principle conviction “God is ‘No-thing’ but rather the Being that undergirds all reality – and we must become nothing to be one with God.”Įckhart came into prominence during the Avignon Papacy, at a time of increased tensions between monastic orders, diocesan clergy, the Franciscan Order, and Eckhart’s Dominican Order of Preachers. His works, ideas, and contributions have kindled and captivated the curiosity of the modern readers. A theologian, preacher, mystic, writer, able orator and a renowned philosopher of the thirteenth-fourteenth century, Meister Eckhart’s life and the feat is no ordinary deed. He was endowed with the honorific title of “meister” (master in German) after he obtained the academic title of ‘Magister in Theologia’ from the University of Paris. Miester Eckhart was born in 1260 at Hochheim, a village near Gotha in the Landgraviate of Thuringia (now central Germany) in the Holy Roman Empire and was named Eckhart von Hochheim. Place of Death: probably Avignon, the Kingdom of Arles in the Holy Roman Empire (now France) Place of Birth: near Gotha, Landgraviate of Thuringia in the Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) Meister Eckhart – German theologian, philosopher, and mystic.
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