Meister Eckhart

Eckhart preached in German with metaphysical bite: Gelassenheit, the spark’s nobility, birth of the Son in the soul—language that thrilled lay audiences and rattled authorities worried about pantheist scent. Scholastic training undergirded him; poets later claimed him as avant-garde mystic.

Historians parse condemnations with nuance; philosophers hear resonances with negative theology and modern phenomenology; spiritual readers mine sermons as exercises.

Outdeus emphasizes Eckhart as a Christian mystic who pressed immanence/transcendence grammar until ordinary speech bent—mystical experience as conceptual labor, not mood alone.