ABSTRACT
This chapter will deal first with a treatment of Eckhart's life. It will then present a brief and systematic summary of his theology and conclude with Jung's elevation of Eckhart's religious and theological discourse to the level of the psyche and its foundational dynamics. Eckhart was born around 1260 probably at Tambach near Gotha in Thuringia in contemporary central Germany to a family of "lower aristocracy". Eckhart was a pantheist and Martensen argued that this is nothing to be ashamed of since pantheism is the basis of both mysticism and theological speculation. The chapter follows three articles which again make most sense when read against the dissolution of the difference between divine and human subjects at the height of Eckhart's religious and theological experience. Though clouded the issues provoking the trial would seem to centre on the theological implications of him rather than political strife between pope and emperor or religious strife between the newly founded mendicants, Dominicans and Franciscans.
