Publication

2017 - Peeters Publishers & Booksellers

Language

English

Word Count

71,250 words, Guess

Page Count

285 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789042932531
  • ISBN-109042932538
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017385652
  • OCLC Control Number993998182
  • Better World Books9789042932531
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Classifications

  • LCCBV5095.E3W64 2017
  • LCCBV5095.E3 W64 2017

Description

Back cover: "What is this 'principle' (principium) in which God is said to have created heaven and earth?" This is the first question Eckhart poses at the very beginning of his Commentary on Genesis. In the course of this book a space is opened up in order to speak about the relationship between God and creation in a 'principial' way. Tracing the concept as it is used throughout his Latin (and, on occasion, German) works, the panoply and resonance of its use establish the necessary place of principium within the vocabulary of Eckhart's metaphysics of creation and generation. Ranging from the nature of being to the question of what constitutes human personhood, the 'principle' serves to identify Eckhart's teaching on the mutual compenetration between God and man.

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