Written work · Essential works
Talks of Instruction (Counsels on Discernment)
Die rede der underscheidunge
Twenty-three chapters of practical spiritual direction on true obedience, prayer, detachment from one's own will, the Eucharist, sins and how to work without losing God. They contain the maxim that what one does matters less than what one is. It is Eckhart's earliest German work.
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Authorship note
Authentic German work, edited in Die deutschen Werke. Talks addressed to the novices of Erfurt when he was prior (c. 1294–1298), according to the manuscripts' title.
Editions and translations
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English
The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart
Crossroad / Herder & Herder, 2007
Translation: Maurice O'C. Walshe; rev. Bernard McGinn
ISBN 9780824524340
Todos los sermones y tratados alemanes, con numeración propia y tabla de concordancia con Quint. Contiene esta obra.
Selected Writings
Penguin Classics, 1994
Translation: Oliver Davies
ISBN 0140433430
Antología de obras alemanas y latinas.
Meister Eckhart: The Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises, and Defense
Paulist Press, 1981
Translation: Edmund Colledge, Bernard McGinn
ISBN 0809123703
Classics of Western Spirituality. Contiene esta obra.
Alto alemán medio
Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart. Die deutschen Werke (DW I–V)
The Conscious LibraryMeister Eckhart. Die deutschen Werke (DW I–V)
W. Kohlhammer, 1958
Translation: Josef Quint, Georg Steer (eds.)
Edición crítica con traducción al alemán moderno; DW I–III (sermones 1–86) 1958–1976, DW IV (desde el sermón 87) desde 2003, DW V (tratados) 1963. Contiene esta obra.
Español
Meister Eckhart
Tratados y sermones
The Conscious LibraryTratados y sermones
Edhasa, 1983
Translation: Ilse M. de Brugger
Traducción española de los tratados alemanes y de una selección de sermones. ISBN no comprobado en catálogo.
Other works by Meister Eckhart
- Inaugural Lecture on the Sentences · 1293
- Easter Sermon (Paris, 1294) · 1294
- Treatise on the Lord's Prayer · 1294
- Sermon on the Feast of Saint Augustine (Paris) · 1302
- Parisian Questions · 1302
- Tripartite Work (prologues) · 1311
- Commentary on the Book of Genesis · 1314
- Book of the Parables of Genesis · 1314
- Commentary on the Book of Exodus · 1314
- Sermons and Lectures on Ecclesiasticus 24 · 1314
- Commentary on the Book of Wisdom · 1314
- Commentary on the Gospel of John · 1320
- Latin Sermons · 1320
- Defence (Reply to the Cologne charges) · 1326
- The Book of Divine Consolation · 1318
- On the Noble Man · 1318
- On Detachment · 1320
- German Sermons (complete corpus) · 1320
- German Sermon 1: 'Intravit Iesus in templum'
- German Sermon 2: 'Intravit Iesus in quoddam castellum'
- German Sermon 5b: 'In hoc apparuit caritas dei in nobis'
- German Sermon 6: 'Iusti vivent in aeternum'
- German Sermon 9: 'Quasi stella matutina'
- German Sermon 12: 'Qui audit me'
- German Sermon 22: 'Ave, gratia plena'
- German Sermon 48: 'Ein meister sprichet: alliu glîchiu dinc minnent sich'
- German Sermon 52: 'Beati pauperes spiritu'
- German Sermon 71: 'Surrexit autem Saulus de terra'
- German Sermon 83: 'Renovamini spiritu'
- German Sermon 86: 'Intravit Iesus in quoddam castellum'
- Sermons on the Eternal Birth (German Sermons 101–104)
- Granum sinapis (The Mustard Seed) · 1320
- Sister Catherine Treatise · 1320
- Eckhart Legends ('Meister Eckhart's Daughter' and others) · 1350
- Paradisus anime intelligentis (Paradise of the Intellectual Soul) · 1340
- Bull 'In agro dominico' (1329) · 1329
Sources
- Meister Eckhart. Die deutschen und lateinischen Werke. Herausgegeben im Auftrage der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1936– (Die deutschen Werke, ed. Josef Quint y Georg Steer; Die lateinischen Werke, ed. Konrad Weiß, Josef Koch, Loris Sturlese et al.).
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