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Meister Eckhart on the principle : an analysis of the principium in his Latin works / by Christopher M. Wojtulewicz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Eckhart : texts and studies ; 005Publication details: Leuven : Peeters, 2017.Description: xii, 285 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9789042932531
  • 9042932538
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV5095.E3 W64 2017
Other classification:
  • BQT 2409.E4.T46S-5
Contents:
Being and becoming in the principium -- Principium as creative -- Generation in principio -- Christology and human personhood in the principium.
Summary: Back cover: "What is this 'principle' (principium) in which God is said to have created heaven and earth?" This is the first question Eckhart poses at the very beginning of his Commentary on Genesis. In the course of this book a space is opened up in order to speak about the relationship between God and creation in a 'principial' way. Tracing the concept as it is used throughout his Latin (and, on occasion, German) works, the panoply and resonance of its use establish the necessary place of principium within the vocabulary of Eckhart's metaphysics of creation and generation. Ranging from the nature of being to the question of what constitutes human personhood, the 'principle' serves to identify Eckhart's teaching on the mutual compenetration between God and man.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Opera (Magaz.) Opera (Magaz.) Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Magazzino BQT 2409.E4.T46S-5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0030203837

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and indexes.

Being and becoming in the principium -- Principium as creative -- Generation in principio -- Christology and human personhood in the principium.

Back cover: "What is this 'principle' (principium) in which God is said to have created heaven and earth?" This is the first question Eckhart poses at the very beginning of his Commentary on Genesis. In the course of this book a space is opened up in order to speak about the relationship between God and creation in a 'principial' way. Tracing the concept as it is used throughout his Latin (and, on occasion, German) works, the panoply and resonance of its use establish the necessary place of principium within the vocabulary of Eckhart's metaphysics of creation and generation. Ranging from the nature of being to the question of what constitutes human personhood, the 'principle' serves to identify Eckhart's teaching on the mutual compenetration between God and man.