文档介绍：The God beyond God: Theology and Mysticism in the Thought of Meister Eckhart
Bernard McGinn
The Journal of Religion, Vol. 61, No. 1. (Jan., 1981), pp. 1-19.
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The God beyond God: Theology and
Mysticism in the Thought of
Meister Eckhart*
Bernard McGinn / Uniuersip ojChicagro
To write about the relation of theology and mysticism is not an easy
task. On the one hand, there are those who think that mysticism is by
definition so foolish that the only wise word to be uttered about it is a
word of dismissal; on the other, we have the virtually unanimous
teaching of the mystics, Christian and non-Christian, that the goal of
the