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The papal bull In agro dominico (March 27, 1329) condemning Meister Eckhart

Full text, published with introduction and notes by Ellopos

 

It should be clear that the condemnation of Eckhart’s theology, is not one among the many falls of the infallible See. It is the condemnation of the prospect of the Catholic Church to have a real theology, that is a Church with a real heart. ...

Enlightened by God’s Spirit into a real contact with the living God, and not with a God of concepts, magic and rules, Eckhart became able to free himself from the chains of scholasticism, arriving at the living theology of his German sermons. His marginalization was the strongest sign of the previous corruption of the papacy which defined also the corruption to come. ... 

In the brief notes that discuss Eckhart's teaching, we also have an indirect glance at the ‘logic’ of the Pope, the ‘logic’ that divided Christianity first into Orthodox and Catholic Churches, and then divided the Catholic Church to the hundreds of Protestant fragments, bringing Europe into the mess that it is today and since long ago, desperately now trying to be politically united not for friendship in truth, but just to avoid wars...  (Read more)

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