NP Re: German enthusiasts, Eckhart

[Terrance]

s~Z wrote:
> 
> http://www.ccel.org/e/eckhart/sermons/htm/iv.htm
> "Now, people say when they commit sin, that they do not intend to
> do so always; they intend to turn away from sin. That is just as
> though a man were to kill himself and suppose that he could make
> himself alive again by his own strength. That is, however,
> impossible; but to turn from sin by one's own power and come to
> God is still much more impossible. Therefore, whosoever is to turn
> from sin and come to God in His heavenly kingdom, must be drawn by
> the heavenly Father with the might of His divine power."
> 
>         --Meister Eckhart
> 
> I was just having trouble with the idea that the individual does
> the inviting.


The Spirit cannot will anything but what God wills, and that is not
slavery but true freedom." --M.E.

History and Christ? Eckhart is a Catholic Mystic (those that would
emphasize his disputes with the Pope and forget this do so at their
peril) and so he insists that Christ is eternally begotten; 

"God is ever working in one Eternal Now, and his working is a giving
birth of His Son. He bears him at every instant." --M.E.

Christ, as every Catholic who knows the Dogma of her religion (these are
rare in any religion) knows, is ahistorical.