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The following books and articles are intended to represent a basic rather than comprehensive list of materials on Meister Eckhart.

I. Basic:

a. Sources:

Meister Eckhart: Die deutschen und lateinischen Werke. Herausgegeben im Auftrage der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Stuttgart and Berlin: Verlag W. Kohlhammer, 11 Vols., 1936 ­ . Authentic treatises and sermons. (Vol. 10 expected soon.)

Josef Quint, ed. and trans. Meister Eckehart: Deutsche Predigten und Traktate, Munich: Carl Hanser, 1955. Authentic treatises and sermons.

Josef Quint, ed., Textbuch zur Mystik des deutschen Mittelalters: Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, Heinrich Seuse, Halle/Saale: M. Niemeyer, 1952. Middle High German texts including Eckhart's sermons nos. 2, 9, 10, and 11, with variants and discussion. The texts also include five sermons of Tauler and three selections from Suso.

Augustine Daniels, O.S.B., ed., "Eine lateinische Rechtfertigungsschrift des Meister Eckharts," Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters, 23, 5 (Münster, 1923): 1 ­ 4, 12 ­ 13, 34 ­ 35, 65 ­ 66. Eckhart's Defense at Cologne.

Franz Jostes, ed., Meister Eckhart und seine Jünger: Ungedruckte zur Geschichte der deutschen Mystik, De Gruyter, 1972 (Series: Deutsche Neudrucke Texte des Mittelalters). Sermons.

Thomas Kaepelli, O.P., "Kurz Mitteilungen über mittelalterliche Dominikanerschriftsteller," Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 10, (1940), pp. 293 ­ 94. Letter fragment of John XXII to Archbishop Henry II of Virneburg.

Thomas Kaepelli, O.P., Scriptores ordinis Praedicatorum medii aevi. Vol. I (A-F). Rome, 1970.

M.H. Laurent, "Autour du procés de Maître Eckhart. Les documents des Archives Vaticanes," Divus Thomas (Piacenza) 39 (1936), pp. 331 ­ 48, 430 ­ 47. Records of Eckhart's trials at Cologne and Avignon with related documents.

Franz Pelster, S.J., ed., Articuli contra Fratrem Aychardum Alamannum, Vat. lat. 3899, f. 123^r ­ 130^v, in "Ein Gutachten aus dem Eckehart­Prozess in Avignon," Aus der Geistewelt des Mittelalters, Festgabe Martin Grabmann, Beiträge Supplement 3, Munster, 1935, pp. 1099 ­ 1124. Opinion of Avignon Commission against Eckhart.

Gabriel Théry, O.P., "Édition critique des piéces relatives au procés d'Eckhart continues dans le manuscrit 33b de la Bibliotheque de Soest," Archives d'histoire littéraire et doctrinal du moyen âge, 1 (1926), pp. 129 ­ 268. Eckhart's Defense at Cologne.


b. Translations and commentaries:

Meister Eckhart, The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises and Defense, trans. and ed. by Bernard McGinn and Edmund Colledge, New York: Paulist Press, 1981.

Meister Eckhart: Teacher and Preacher, trans. and ed. by Bernard McGinn and Frank Tobin, New York and London: Paulsit Press / SPCK, 1987.

Meister Eckhart, Sermons and Treatises, trans. by M. O'C. Walshe, 3 vols., Longmead, Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element Books, 1987.

James Midgely Clark, Meister Eckhart: An Introduction to the Study of His Works with an Anthology of His Sermons, Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, 1957.

James M. Clark and John V. Skinner, eds. and trans., Treatises and Sermons of Meister Eckhart, New York: Octagon Books, 1983. (Reprint of Harper and Row ed., 1958.)

Meister Eckhart: Selected Writings, ed. and trans. by Oliver Davies, London: Penguin, 1994.

C. de B. Evans, Meister Eckhart by Franz Pfeiffer, 2 vols., London: Watkins, 1924 and 1931.

Ursula Fleming, Meister Eckhart: The Man from whom God Hid Nothing , Leominster, Herefordshire: Gracewing, 1995.

Matthew Fox, O.P., ed., Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart's Creation Spirituality in New Translation, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980.

Armand Maurer, ed., Master Eckhart: Parisian Questions and Prologues, Toronto, Canada: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1974.

Reiner Schürmann, Meister Eckhart: Mystic and Philosopher, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978.

Shizuteru Ueda, Die Gottesgeburt in der Seele und der Durchbruch zur Gottheit. Die mystische Anthropologie Meister Eckharts und ihre Konfrontation mit der Mystik des Zen­Buddhismus , Gütersloh: Mohn, 1965. .


II. Supplementary

Eckardus Theutonicus, homo doctus et sanctus, Fribourg: University of Fribourg, 1993. Report of the Commission set up by the Dominican Chapter of Walberburg.

Jeanne Ancelet­Hustache, Master Eckhart, New York and London: Harper and Row/ Longmans, 1957.

James M. Clark, The Great German Mystics, New York: Russell and Russell, 1970 (reprint of Basil Blackwell edition, Oxford: 1949.)

James M. Clark, trans., Henry Suso: Little Book of Eternal Wisdom and Little Book of Truth, London: Faber, 1953.

Oliver Davies, God Within: The Mystical Tradition of Northern Europe, London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1988.

Oliver Davies, Meister Eckhart: Mystical Theologian, London: SPCK, 1991.

Michae lDemkovich OP Introducing Meister Eckhart 178pp Ottawa, Canada, Novalis 2005

Robert K. Forman, Meister Eckhart: Mystic as Theologian, Rockport, Mass. / Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element Books, 1991.

Gundolf Gieraths, O.P., Life in Abundance: Meister Eckhart and the German Dominican Mystics of the 14th Century, Spirituality Today Supplement, Autumn, 1986.

Amy Hollywood, The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart, Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996.

Rufus Jones, The Flowering of Mysticism in the Fourteenth Century, New York: Hafner Publishing Co., 1971 (facsimile of 1939 ed.).

Bernard McGinn, ed., Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete, New York: Continuum, 1994.

McGinn, Bernard  The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart: The Man from whom God Hid Nothing ;xiv + 305 pp. New York, Crossroad-Herder, 2001
This work is a full interpretation of the mysticism of the great Dominican author of the early fourteenth century. Surveying the whole range of Eckhart's Latin and German works, and building on the intensive new research of the past decade, It shows how Eckhart's mysticism centers on his radical conception of the "ground (grunt)", the fused identity of God and human.  Demonstrating Eckhart's genius as a philosopher, theologian, exegete and preacher "The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart" weaves the various aspects of the Dominican's mystical teaching into a detailed interpretation of how all things within and without God proceed out of the hidden divine ground by way of "exitus" or "uzbruch"and return to it ("reditus", or "durchbrechen") through the realization of fused identity in the human intellect.

Milem, Bruce   The Unspoken Word: Negative Theology in Meister Eckhart's German Sermons; 191 pp.  ISBN 0813210194  The Catholic University of America Press 2002

Pierce, Brian,OP We walk the Path Together: Learning from Thich Nhat Hanh and Meister Eckhart: Maryknoll, New York, Orbis Books, 2005    
' In this splendid series of reflections, Brian Pierce liberates Meister Eckhart from the confines
of textual analysis and restores him alive and relevant as mystic, prophet, preacher and guide. By entering Eckhart into dialogue with Thich Nhat Hanh, Pierce situates the old Meister directly and appropriately in the midst of to-day's spiritual and theological conversation between Christianity and Buddhism. Here is wisdom from the heart of two great religious traditions, distilled and shared with rare insight, wisdom and joy'
Richard Woods, author, Mysticism and Prophecy

Schurmann's, Reiner   Wandering Joy:  Meister Eckhart's Mystical Philosophy
ISBN 0970109717  Great Barrington, Mass Lindisfarne Books, 2001.
This remarkable work is a reissue of Meister Eckhart, Mystic and Philosopher and shows Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century Western mystic, as the great teacher of the birth of God in the soul that shatters the dualism between God and the world and the self and God. It is at once an exposition of Eckhart's mysticism-perhaps the best in English-and, because Eckhart is a profound philosopher for whom knowing precedes being, it is also an exemplary work of contemporary philosophy.  Writing as if from experience, the author describes the threefold movement of detachment, releasement and "dehiscence" (splitting open) that leads to the experience of "living without a why" in which all things are in God and which is sheer joy.  Going beyond that, he describes the transformational force of approaching the Godhead, the God beyond God 

Cyprian Smith, The Way of Paradox: Spiritual Life as Taught by Meister Eckhart, New York: Paulist Press, 1988.

Frank Tobin, Meister Eckhart: Thought and Language, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.

Denys Turner, The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Winfried Trusen, Der Prozess gegen Meister Eckhart, Fribourg: University of Fribourg, 1988.

Andrew Weeks, German Mysticism from Hildegard of Bingen to Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Literary and Intellectual History, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Richard Woods, O.P., Eckhart's Way, Wilmington, DE: Glazier, 1986 (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1991).

Richard Woods, O.P., Meister Eckhart: The Gospel of Peace and Justice, Tape Cassette Program, Chicago: Center for Religion & Society, 1993.

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