Contents
Introduction
Part I
1. Situating Eckhart in History
2. The Problem with Interpreting Eckhart
3. Metaphor, Paradox, and the Spirit of Play
4. Eckhart’s Metaphorical Repertoire: Rhetorical Details and Metaphorological Dynamics
5. Eckhart’s Metaphorical Repertoire: Metaphors of Desire and Personal Experience
6. Eckhart’s Metaphorical Repertoire: Passivity, Activity, and the Individual
7. Metaphors and the Development of Modern Thought
8. The Relevance of Eckhart Today
Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works
Bibliography
Part II
Eckhart’s Sermons: Translator’s Note
Sermon 52: Beati pauperes spiritu
Sermon 2: Intravit Iesus in quoddam castellum
Sermon 24: Induimini dominum Iesum Christum
Sermon 40: Manete in me
Sermon 54a: Unser herre underhuop
Sermon 64: Die sele die wirt ain mit gotte vnd nit veraint
Sermon 87: Ecce, dies veniunt, dicit dominus
Sermon 88: Post dies octo vocatum est nomen eius Iesus
Sermon 89: Angelus domini apparuit
Sermon 90a: Sedebat Iesus docens in templo
Sermon 90b: Sedebat Iesus docens in templo
Sermon 91: Voca operarios, et redde illis mercedem suam
Sermon 92: Cum sero factum esset
Sermon 93: Quae est ista, quae ascendit quasi aurora
Sermon 94: Non sunt condignae passiones huius temporis
Sermon 95a: Os suum aperuit sapientiae
Sermon 95b: Os suum aperuit sapientiae
Sermon 96: Elisabeth pariet tibi filium
Sermon 97: Qui manet in me
Sermon 98: Nisi granum frumenti
Sermon 100: Et quaerebat videre Iesum, quis esset
Sermon 106a: Aemulor enim vos Dei aemulatione
Sermon 106b: Aemulor enim vos Dei aemulatione
Sermon 106c: Aemulor enim vos Dei aemulatione
Sermon 106d: Aemulor enim vos Dei aemulatione
Sermon 107: Qui vult venire post me
Sermon 108: Si non lavero te, non habebis partem mecum
Sermon xxiv.2: Domus mea domus orationis est
Concordance
Index