the world and shows how it culminates in a compassionate concern for justice. This is a polemical reading of Eckhart to be sure—Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg liked to cite Eckhart in support of wholly different notions—but Fox’s reading seems both fair and true to Eckhart’s own intentions.
Meister Eckhart was branded a heretic by his own church shortly after he died and he slipped into historical obscurity until fairly recently. This book is a significant attempt to reclaim him for our own time.
