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Definition of Meister Eckhart
1. Noun. German Roman Catholic theologian and mystic (1260-1327).
Generic synonyms: Mystic, Religious Mystic, Theologian, Theologiser, Theologist, Theologizer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meister Eckhart
Literary usage of Meister Eckhart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"The greatest figure in the whole movement is Meister Eckhart, who was a Dominican
teacher and died in the prison of his order. Although the Thomistic system ..."
2. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"MYSTICISM The greatest figure in the whole movement is Meister Eckhart, who was
a Dominican teacher and died in the prison of his ..."
3. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"... thinkers of all the Christian centuries was the Dominican Meister Eckhart,
the trae father of German ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... Hartley and Godwin, which were extremely distasteful to him. The mystical
speculations of Meister Eckhart, Saint Mariin, and above all those of ..."
5. At One with the Invisible: Studies in Mysticism by Elias Hershey Sneath (1921)
"... OF Meister Eckhart RUFUS M. JONES Among the mystics who have reached " the
shining tableland to which our God Himself is moon and sun," Meister Eckhart ..."
6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Meister Eckhart, as he is generally called, Dominican and mystic, was a man almost
forgotten after the middle of the fifteenth century until Franz von ..."
7. Selections from the World's Devotional Classics by George William Gilmore (1916)
"Consult: Pfeiffer, "Meister Eckhart," second volume of "Deutsche Mystiker" (Leipzig,
1857); Martensen, "Meister Eckhart" (Hamburg, 1842); Preger, ..."