Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation / introd. and commentaries by Matthew Fox
1980, 1st edition. Garden City, N.Y. : Image Books. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #413131
ISBN: 0385170343
Physical description; 579 pp.; 22 cm. Contents; Creation -- All creatures are words of God -- Creation : a flowing out but remaining within -- How creatures are God and how God becomes where creatures express him -- The holiness of being -- How all creatures share an equality of being -- The greatness of the human person -- The bigness of the human person -- This is spirituality : waking up -- Waking up to the nearness of God's kindgom -- A God who rejoices and suffers, blesses, and consoles -- Divinity's dark side -- Sinking eternally into God -- Outside God there is nothing but nothing -- Letting God be God in you -- How a radical letting go becomes a true letting be -- Letting the will go -- Letting the intellect go and experiencing pure ignorance -- Letting go of intellect creates a transformation of knowledge -- Wisdom and fiery love -- not repression -- are the results of letting go -- How letting go and letting be are to bear fruit -- Three births : ours, God's, and ourselves as God's children -- Our divinity and God's divinity : to be God is to give birth -- We are children of God and mothers of God -- We are other Christs -- Our divinity : the reason God became a human being -- The Holy Spirit, like a rapid river, divinizes us -- How all creatures experience the divine repose -- Where the soul is, there is God -- Be you creative as God is creative -- Be compassionate as your creator in heaven is compassionate -- Compassion is an ocean -- the mystical side to compassion -- Driving merchant mentalities from our souls : economics and compassion -- Justice, the work of compassion -- When our work becomes a spiritual work working in the world -- Bread is given us for others, on account of others, and with others -- especially the indigent -- Everyone an aristocrat, everyone a royal person -- Compassion as celebration. Subjects; Mysticism History Middle Ages, 600-1500. Sermons, English Translations from German Middle High German. Spiritual life ; Early works to 1800.
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