Rhineland Mystics

Tradition:: Christian mysticism (Rhineland)
Form:: mystical sermons + treatises
Approx. date:: c. 1300 CE

The three German Dominican mystics whose vernacular sermons and treatises shaped late-medieval Rhineland piety. Suso's Büchlein der Wahrheit Prologue + Chs I–IV is a project translation from Middle High German (Bihlmeyer 1907) with Diepenbrock 1854 modern German; see /about/translations/.

Source context· Greco-Christian stream · Greco-Latin cultural age

Stream: Greco-Christian
Cultural age: Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age)
Composed: c. 1300 CE

Meister Eckhart

Meister Eckhart · c. 1300 CE · trans. C. de B. Evans, 1924 (from Pfeiffer's 1857 German edition)

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.

4 sections · 243,381 words

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Johannes Tauler

Johannes Tauler · c. 1340 CE · trans. Walter Elliott, c. 1910

Vernacular sermons and conferences of Johannes Tauler (c. 1300–1361), Eckhart's most prominent pupil and the figure most often named as the Frankfurter's master in the Theologia Germanica tradition. Walter Elliott's translation (Paulist Fathers, c. 1910).

1 sections · 348,086 words

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Heinrich Suso

Heinrich Suso · c. 1330 CE · trans. Anonymous Victorian translator (Life); project translation (Book of Truth)

Heinrich Suso's autobiographical Life of the Servant and his treatise Büchlein der Wahrheit (Book of Truth).

3 sections · 104,375 words

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