INFLUENCE ON FORMATION CHURCH’S PERSPECTIVE ON SPIRITUAL FORMATION:

Eckhart shapes Formation Church’s language around inner stillness and surrender. He reminds us that formation involves releasing ego so that God’s life may take root within us.

• Detachment as freedom for love
• God encountered in the depths of the soul
• Formation beyond performance and religious striving

Key Works: Sermons & Treatises

Core Teachings:

• The “ground of the soul” is the place of direct encounter with God.
• Detachment (gelassenheit) is necessary for true freedom and union.
• God is born in the soul when ego is relinquished.

Signature Themes:

• Inner stillness
• Union beyond concepts
• Radical self‑emptying

Primary Writings & Major Editions:

• Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings, ed. and trans. Oliver Davies.
• Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises (various modern collections).
• Meister Eckhart: Teacher and Preacher, ed. Bernard McGinn (Paulist Press).
• Bernard McGinn, The Mystical Thought of Meister Eckhart (for theological framing).