Sermons. In 2 books
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Sermons. In 2 books
69.99 €
The present publication completes a four-volume project to publish major works of German mysticism from the first half of the fourteenth century, which has previously published commented translations of the works of Meister Eckhart (2010), Heinrich Suso (2014), and several South German Dominicans (2019) in the Literary Monuments series.
To date, John Towler (1300-1361), a disciple and follower of Meister Eckhart and an associate of Heinrich Suso, has been attributed more than eighty sermons delivered by him mainly in Cologne and Strasbourg, as well as one epistle addressed to the nuns of the Dominican monastery of Maria Medingen on the Danube. All of these are included in the present edition. The Supplements to the main body of the edition include the main text of the pseudo-Taulerian life history of Dr. John Tauler, whose ownership by Tauler was disproved by the neo-Thomist Heinrich Denifle at the end of the nineteenth century, and the homilies of sixteen Dominican theologians of the second order, some of which appear in the famous homiletic collection Paradise of the Sane Soul. As Eckhart's successor, Towler generally assimilated the metaphysics presented by his predecessor in treatises and sermons in German and probably in oral conversations (no documentary evidence of the latter, however, has survived). This Neoplatonist metaphysics - extremely reminiscent of that of the mid-fourteenth-century Byzantine Hesychast Gregory Palamas - was developed by Eckhart in the Latin commentaries on the biblical books of his scholastic summa tridentum work, which Tauler apparently did not know. Despite Towler's immersion in Eckhart's metaphysics, he cannot be called an Eckhartian epigone, as has often been the case until recently, for as a practicing, experienced spiritualist he developed, within the framework of Eckhart's conception of man, an exceptionally deep and subtle psychology that had been hinted at by Eckhart (primarily in his "Speeches of Instruction") but was not developed by him. Through his psychology, Tauler entered the history of German and then, through Latin translations, European thought, and became known among the early Reformers. De facto Tauler rescued from centuries of neglect the metaphysics of Eckhart, whom, judging from the number of manuscripts, he surpassed in popularity many times over. Moreover, by developing the active potential of Eckhartian detachment, Towler set about constructing a labor ethic of early capitalism. This is why he became one of the protagonists of Max Weber's famous work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. The social processes illuminated by Weber on the sociological plane had as their foundation an anthropology and ethics of the Taulerian type. All translations included in this edition are carefully commented and accompanied by a detailed accompanying article.
To date, John Towler (1300-1361), a disciple and follower of Meister Eckhart and an associate of Heinrich Suso, has been attributed more than eighty sermons delivered by him mainly in Cologne and Strasbourg, as well as one epistle addressed to the nuns of the Dominican monastery of Maria Medingen on the Danube. All of these are included in the present edition. The Supplements to the main body of the edition include the main text of the pseudo-Taulerian life history of Dr. John Tauler, whose ownership by Tauler was disproved by the neo-Thomist Heinrich Denifle at the end of the nineteenth century, and the homilies of sixteen Dominican theologians of the second order, some of which appear in the famous homiletic collection Paradise of the Sane Soul. As Eckhart's successor, Towler generally assimilated the metaphysics presented by his predecessor in treatises and sermons in German and probably in oral conversations (no documentary evidence of the latter, however, has survived). This Neoplatonist metaphysics - extremely reminiscent of that of the mid-fourteenth-century Byzantine Hesychast Gregory Palamas - was developed by Eckhart in the Latin commentaries on the biblical books of his scholastic summa tridentum work, which Tauler apparently did not know. Despite Towler's immersion in Eckhart's metaphysics, he cannot be called an Eckhartian epigone, as has often been the case until recently, for as a practicing, experienced spiritualist he developed, within the framework of Eckhart's conception of man, an exceptionally deep and subtle psychology that had been hinted at by Eckhart (primarily in his "Speeches of Instruction") but was not developed by him. Through his psychology, Tauler entered the history of German and then, through Latin translations, European thought, and became known among the early Reformers. De facto Tauler rescued from centuries of neglect the metaphysics of Eckhart, whom, judging from the number of manuscripts, he surpassed in popularity many times over. Moreover, by developing the active potential of Eckhartian detachment, Towler set about constructing a labor ethic of early capitalism. This is why he became one of the protagonists of Max Weber's famous work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. The social processes illuminated by Weber on the sociological plane had as their foundation an anthropology and ethics of the Taulerian type. All translations included in this edition are carefully commented and accompanied by a detailed accompanying article.
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