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Rivista Di Storia E Letteratura Religiosa, 2007
Since his first Parisian questions, Master Eckhart develops organically an intellectual "nih... more Since his first Parisian questions, Master Eckhart develops organically an intellectual "nihilism" which represents an original attempt to synthesize criti-cally the fundamental lines of the western metaphysical, theological and religious thought. Particularly his German sermons, grounded in a "grammatical" interpretation of the first line of John's Gospel, bring forth an hermeneutic of intellectual faith whose strong purpose is to lead to union with God by essence, a mystical aim based on the simple basic rule of self-annihilation as key to the true spiritual life. But in the popular forms of its reception the way of annihilation preached by the German Dominican comes to lose his speculative structure and feed paradoxically the growing attitude that separate drastically the scholastic way to the knowledge of God from the spiritual one.
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