| Moderator/Chair: | Victor Salas, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit |
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| Paper 730-a | How to Love God?: Meister Eckhart in the Context of the German Franciscan Discourse of Divine Love (MSS. Giessen, UB, 879 and St Gallen, Stiftsbibl., 955)
(Language: English)
Nikolay Bondarko, Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences / Meister Eckhart Gesellschaft / Eckhart Society
Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
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| Paper 730-b | The Journey of the Soul to God: Heidegger, Historiography, and the 'Form of Life' of 'Medieval Man'
(Language: English)
Philip Tonner, Culture & Sport Glasgow, Glasgow Museums / University of Glasgow
Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Philosophy, Religious Life |
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| Abstract | Paper -a:
The paper is dedicated to the problem of reception of Master Eckhart's German sermons in the late medieval manuscript tradition. The attention is focused on a question, why did the redactors of the 14th and early 15th centuries place some short texts belonging or attributed to Master Eckhart (e.g. sermon Nr. 57) in a very different context of Franciscan devotional texts on divine love? The answer is to be sought in a specific strategy of reinterpreting some innovative elements of Eckart's theological system. Another problem is to characterize the special 'Franciscan' features of the love discourse.
Paper -b:
The 20th Century German philosopher Martin Heidegger argues that architectural works such as the Gothic Cathedral are 'cultural paradigms'. On Heidegger's terms these works materially enact the transcendent relation of the soul to God, a relation that is qualitatively 'lived' in the Middle Ages. This relation constitutes the fundamental principle upon which the journey of the soul to God of the medieval Christian is founded. A Heideggerian account of the spiritual function of the Cathedral is based upon Heidegger's account of the 'form of life' of 'medieval man'. Heidegger was always concerned with the Middle Ages. He said in 1919 'I believe that I – perhaps more than those who work on the subject officially – have perceived the values that the…Middle Ages bears within itself'. My paper will outline Heidegger's engagement with the Middle Ages throughout his career and will present a historiographical interpretation of his understanding of the medieval 'form of life', the form of life given its character by the analogical-hierarchical understanding of being.
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