a critical inheritance of mystical themes in the fourteenth century

Serie: Mediaevalia Lovaniensia – Series 1/Studia

Kikuchi, Satoshi | Paperback / softback | 24-11-2024 | 9789058679857

The mystical relationship between Meister Eckhart and Jan van Ruusbroec
In this thorough textual, historical, and doctrinal study the author seeks
to clarify the relationship between two prominent mystics of the fourteenth
century: Meister Eckhart, the German Dominican, and Jan van Ruusbroec,
the Brabantine Augustinian. Special attention is paid to Ruusbroec’s
criticism of mystical tenets circulating in Brabant at that time which
were both textually and doctrinally related to Eckhart’s condemned propositions
in the papal bull ‘In agro dominico’. This fact implies that Ruusbroec
was confronted with the impact of the condemnation of Eckhart’s doctrines
on the people in Brabant. Situating Ruusbroec’s life and works within
the aftermath of Eckhart’s arrival, the author elucidates Ruusbroec’s
position regarding the relevant mystical themes in the later Middle Ages,
and follows a process of critical inheritance of mystical tradition from
Eckhart to Ruusbroec.