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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.

Christian fundamental theology --- Eckhart [Meister] --- Creation --- 248 ECKHART, Meister, O.P. (1260-ca.1328) --- 248 ECKHART, Meister, O.P. (1260-ca.1328) Spiritualite. Ascese. Mystique. Theologie ascetique et mystique. Devotion--ECKHART, Meister, O.P. (1260-ca.1328) --- 248 ECKHART, Meister, O.P. (1260-ca.1328) Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--ECKHART, Meister, O.P. (1260-ca.1328) --- Spiritualite. Ascese. Mystique. Theologie ascetique et mystique. Devotion--ECKHART, Meister, O.P. (1260-ca.1328) --- Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--ECKHART, Meister, O.P. (1260-ca.1328) --- Biblical cosmogony --- Eckhart, --- Eckart, --- Eckehart, --- Eckhart, Johannes, --- Ekharti, --- Ėkkhart, --- Cosmogony --- Natural theology --- Teleology --- Beginning --- Biblical cosmology --- Creation windows --- Creationism --- Evolution

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Meister Eckhart and Thomas of Erfurt lived streets away from one another. Thomas was the last great figure of the Modistae, the speculative grammarians who were concerned with the relationship between grammar and ontology, the structure of the sentence mirroring the structure of the world. Thomas’ major work – the Grammatica speculativa – was deeply influential in the medieval period. But does Thomas’ geographical proximity to Eckhart suggest a concomitant influence of modism on his thought? What of modism’s legacy after the rapid demise of the grammatical theory in the early-mid fourteenth century? The contributions to this volume deal with these matters, and were originally presented at the ‘Meister Eckhart and Thomas of Erfurt’ conference at the Max-Weber-Center at the University of Erfurt, 14-15 November 2013.

Grammaire spéculative