‘Carefully Treat Each Text, as Well you Know’: Eckhart the Rhetorical Master
We speak of Meister Eckhart as a unique voice in Western medieval thought: profound, poetic; rooted in tradition but with a gift for bringing startling imagery to his teachings that exposes the radical nature of the Christian message. As a teacher, he speaks without preconceptions or prejudice; brin...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Medieval mystical theology
Year: 2025, Volume: 34, Issue: 2, Pages: 96-108 |
| Further subjects: | B
Dominican Order
B lesemeister B Lebemeister B Preaching B Rhetoric B Sermon |
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| Summary: | We speak of Meister Eckhart as a unique voice in Western medieval thought: profound, poetic; rooted in tradition but with a gift for bringing startling imagery to his teachings that exposes the radical nature of the Christian message. As a teacher, he speaks without preconceptions or prejudice; bringing the same boldness of rhetorical style and message to all audiences irrespective of context. Yet Eckhart’s fusion of life and learning is in many ways characteristically Dominican: the act of preaching and the formation of preachers being central to the mission and vocation of the Order. After examining contemporary expectations and theories of Dominican sermon-making, and what Eckhart has to say in his works about the act and art of preaching, I will focus on Eckhart’s German Sermon 22 in order to explore in detail the flavour and operation of his rhetorical style. |
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| ISSN: | 2046-5734 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Medieval mystical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/20465726.2025.2580047 |
