Increasingly regarded as one of our greatest spiritual writers, a whiff of heresy still shrouds the work of Meister Eckhart. One of his poems, using metaphor and paradox to reach towards a truth beyond the fingertips of logic, is the quintessence of his theology.
31 August 2023, The Tablet
Meister Eckhart and ‘The Mustard Seed’
A medieval statue of Meister Eckhart von Hochheim on the Rathaus in Cologne.
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