Theological Studies, September 1st, 2003
By Bruce Milem. Washington: Catholic University of America, 2002. Pp. ix + 192. $44.95.
Bruce Milem's study concentrates on just four of Meister Eckhart's evocative sermons to illustrate that this mystic's daring ways of expressing himself are thoroughly consistent with the views that he is known to have taken in his formal theological works. Of particular concern is Eckhart's insistence on the point that the nature of God can never be adequately spoken about in human language.
Paradoxically, the effort to explain this point requires human language, and so the language must be carefully gu...
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