Mystik in Geschichte und Gegenwart

The study is a first attempt to explore the so far almost unexplored speech about light in Meister Eckhart’s vernecular sermons. Due to a consistent close reading of Meister Eckhart’s vernacular sermons, the study elaborates the motif of light with reagrd to its significance for the history of tradition, as well as to its use for homiletic communication. Thus, it offers a sensitive perception of Eckhart as a theologian and thinker in the Christian world of the early 14th century.

The longing for God, asking for him and searching for him, is the key theme in the visionary writings of Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) and the basis for numerous questions. The articles by the eminent German philologist and theologian which have been collected under this title deal with topics and aspects of Hildegard’s colorful and inexhaustible thoughts which create a relationship between the microcosm and the macrocosm, mankind and God and are so timeless in their essentiality that they can still inspire us now.