On Meister Eckhart
Thursday, May 28, 2020
8:00PM EDT (7:00PM CDT)
Registration required
On Thursday, May 28th, we will cosponsor, together with the Lumen Christi Institute, a Zoom webinar that is part of the spring webinar series, Reason and Wisdom in Medieval Christian Thought. Professor Bernard McGinn will present a lecture, “On Meister Eckhart.” The webinar will be held on Zoom at 8:00PM EDT (7:00PM CDT) on Thursday, May 28th. The Saint Benedict Institute is a cosponsor of this event.
This event is free and open to the public, but online registration is required. For more information and to register for this webinar, click here.
Meister Eckhart (d. ca. 1328) was a famous and popular German mystical writer and preacher. After formal theological training in the University of Paris, following the footsteps of Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure, Eckhart charted a distinctive mystical dialectical theological in his writings and sermons and drew theological controversy. His thought became an inspiration for a tradition of mystical thought after him and remains a wellspring of religious and theological thought today. Professor Bernard McGinn will introduce the life and some of the principal themes of Eckhart’s enigmatic thought.
Bernard McGinn is the Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity in the Divinity School and the Committees on Medieval Studies and on General Studies at the University of Chicago. He has written extensively about the history of apocalyptic thought, spirituality, and mysticism. McGinn's many books include Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil, The Presence of God, a multivolume history of Western Christian mysticism, and most recently Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae: A Biography.