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The Absolute Behind the Absolute: Eckhart and the Oldest Error in Metaphysics

The Absolute Behind the Absolute: Eckhart and the Oldest Error in Metaphysics

Kriger, Boris

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ISBN13: 9798186993889
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the oldest mistake in the history of human thought is not believing in God, and not disbelieving in Him, but the strange, persistent conviction that behind God there must be another God - a deeper one, a realer one, a God behind the curtain?
Boris Kriger - former Orthodox priest, physician, and theoretical physicist - puts that conviction on trial. His central defendant is Meister Eckhart, the brilliant fourteenth-century Dominican who preached that the soul could break through past the Trinity itself into a silent, nameless Godhead, and who became the only major theologian of the Middle Ages to be condemned by a pope for it. But Eckhart does not stand alone in the dock. Behind him stretch the Gnostics, who stacked thirty floors of divinity above the Creator and demoted Him to a bungling demiurge; the late Neoplatonists, who kept postulating one more Absolute behind the last one until the honest Damascius admitted the ladder never ends; and ahead of him stands Hegel, who tipped the whole ladder on its side and called the endless regress History.

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