Written work
Commentary on the Book of Genesis
Expositio libri Genesis
A literal commentary on the first chapters of Genesis, centred on the 'beginning' in which God creates: the Logos, the eternal idea. Several of its propositions on the eternity of the world were included in the 1329 bull.
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Authorship note
Authentic Latin work, edited in Die lateinischen Werke. Part of the Work of Expositions; two redactions exist.
Editions and translations
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English
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.
Latín
Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart. Die lateinischen Werke (LW I–V)
The Conscious LibraryMeister Eckhart. Die lateinischen Werke (LW I–V)
W. Kohlhammer, 1936
Edición crítica de la Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, con traducción alemana; en curso desde 1936. Contiene esta obra.
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
- 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
- Talks of Instruction (Counsels on Discernment) · 1296
- 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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