{"title":"Science and Mysticism in the Middle Ages: Meister Eckhart's Synthesis","authors":"Robert J. Dobie","doi":"10.1558/MMT.V19.15","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"What is the truth of Holy Scripture? For Eckhart, this truth is clear and simple: Christ. Christ is the inner truth of all Scripture. But how are we to understand Christ? How are we to make the truth that is Christ our own? I think this is the main task that Eckhart sets himself. Christ, of course, reveals himself in the texts of the Gospels; but the Gospels talk about a distant time and place. How then, are we to invite Christ into the innermost part of our souls? Eckhart puts this very forcefully in his vernacular sermon, Praedica Verbum:","PeriodicalId":277704,"journal":{"name":"Eckhart Review","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2010-03-27","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/10.1558/MMT.V19.15","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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What is the truth of Holy Scripture? For Eckhart, this truth is clear and simple: Christ. Christ is the inner truth of all Scripture. But how are we to understand Christ? How are we to make the truth that is Christ our own? I think this is the main task that Eckhart sets himself. Christ, of course, reveals himself in the texts of the Gospels; but the Gospels talk about a distant time and place. How then, are we to invite Christ into the innermost part of our souls? Eckhart puts this very forcefully in his vernacular sermon, Praedica Verbum:
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