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    "name": "Meister Eckhart",
    "stream": "greco-christian",
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    "form": "mystical sermons + treatises",
    "tradition": "Christian mysticism (Rhineland)",
    "author": "Meister Eckhart",
    "year_approx": 1300,
    "note": "Vernacular sermons, treatises (*Talks of Instruction*, *Book of Divine Comfort*, *Of the Nobleman*), and sayings of Meister Eckhart (c. 1260–1328) — the most influential of the Rhineland mystics, censured posthumously by John XXII. C. de B. Evans's 1924 translation of Pfeiffer's 1857 German edition.",
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      "num": 1,
      "slug": "00-sermons-and-collations",
      "title": "Sermons and Collations",
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      "subtitle": "Sermons and Collations",
      "blurb": "The body of Eckhart's German-language preaching. Sermons delivered to mixed lay-religious audiences in Cologne, Strasbourg, Erfurt — the great Eckhartian themes: the *Geburt Gottes in der Seele* (birth of God in the soul), the *Vünkelin* (little spark) of the soul, the *Abgeschiedenheit* (releasement), the apophatic Godhead beyond God."
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      "slug": "01-tractates",
      "title": "Tractates",
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      "subtitle": "Tractates — the German prose treatises",
      "blurb": "Eckhart's vernacular prose treatises: *On Detachment*, *The Book of Divine Consolation*, *The Talks of Instruction*, *On the Nobleman*. Where the sermons are improvisations on specific Scripture-passages, the tractates are sustained doctrinal-exhortatory writings on the central themes of the Eckhartian life."
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      "slug": "02-sayings",
      "title": "Sayings",
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      "subtitle": "Sayings — the *Sprüche*",
      "blurb": "Short sayings (*Sprüche*) preserved by Eckhart's disciples — distilled doctrinal aphorisms in the master's voice. 'God's exit is his entry'; 'the eye with which I see God is the eye with which God sees me'; 'unless you do without yourself, you cannot do without God.'"
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      "num": 4,
      "slug": "03-liber-positionum",
      "title": "Liber Positionum",
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      "subtitle": "Liber Positionum — the disputed propositions",
      "blurb": "The *Liber Positionum* — list of Eckhart's propositions extracted from his writings and put forward for theological scrutiny. The list overlaps substantially with the propositions condemned by the bull *In Agro Dominico* (1329). The doctrinal-legal frame in which Eckhart's later reception was determined."
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