{"title":"Eckhart as a Spiritual Guide","authors":"P. Hayes","doi":"10.1179/ECK_1995_4_1_003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"I am here because I belong to those of my contemporaries who believe that Eckhart has something to say to us as ordinary men and women at the end of the twentieth century. I dare to say this even though what really fascinates me is Eckhart's capacity to suggest what lies'beyond speech! Gratefully acknowledging the current scholarshippf those who are making the work of Eckhart more widely available, my task is simply to focus upon Eckhart as a spiritual guide. This I propose t9>do, not in any comprehensive sense. in an attempt to balance every.aspect of Eckhart's approach to the delicate art of spiritual guidance, but in a way that highlights aspects of Eckhart's charism that I personally find relevant for now. Throughout, I shall remain dazzled by the juxtaposition of apparently contradictory assertions in Eckhart's writings as they leave us with an awareness that truth must be personally experienced if it is to be grasped in any meaningful way. So if I might be al1<?w:ed to adopt the style of one of Eckhart's now famous rhetorical quotations, I would like to begin this talk by asking what does it matter that Eckhart was prepared to suffer the charge of heresy in order to make the Christ truth\"personally relevant to the lives of his hearers, if we are not able to apply that truth to the living of our own lives? Eckhart was a mystic, one from whom, according to the founder of the Eckhart Society, Ursula Fleming, God hid nothing. But he was a mystic who not only attempted to express his experience of God theologically, but who also groped with theology in the light of his experience. He was therefore a theologian in the tradition of the early Fathers of the Church, both East and West: one who lived and spoke from his experience of God. With Paul, he would say again and again, regardless of the consequences for himself,","PeriodicalId":277704,"journal":{"name":"Eckhart Review","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Eckhart Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1179/ECK_1995_4_1_003","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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I am here because I belong to those of my contemporaries who believe that Eckhart has something to say to us as ordinary men and women at the end of the twentieth century. I dare to say this even though what really fascinates me is Eckhart's capacity to suggest what lies'beyond speech! Gratefully acknowledging the current scholarshippf those who are making the work of Eckhart more widely available, my task is simply to focus upon Eckhart as a spiritual guide. This I propose t9>do, not in any comprehensive sense. in an attempt to balance every.aspect of Eckhart's approach to the delicate art of spiritual guidance, but in a way that highlights aspects of Eckhart's charism that I personally find relevant for now. Throughout, I shall remain dazzled by the juxtaposition of apparently contradictory assertions in Eckhart's writings as they leave us with an awareness that truth must be personally experienced if it is to be grasped in any meaningful way. So if I might be al1
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