Central to his writings was a belief in divine 'Oneness' and self-reproduction. Eckhart argued God was both the ultimate source of the universe and the element inherent in all His creatures. He was also preoccupied with the nature of intellect', which he called the 'ground of the soul'; the image of God inside us offering all the possibility of redemption through a return to the Trinity. This Neoplatonic 'Oneness' was boldly reconciled with the Christian Trinity by stressing God's reproduction through His son and the human individual. Whilst this unorthodox approach led to charges of preaching beyond the confines of his faith, Eckhart's radical synthesis of Greek thought and Christian doctrine has remained complex, challenging and frequently misunderstood.
Including some works translated into English for first time, this book illuminates the German Dominican Meister Eckhart's synthesis of traditional Christian belief and Greek metaphysics, yielding a boldly speculative philosophy founded on "oneness" of the universe and on a God at once personal and transcendent.