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Section 4. _the Mystics_

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SOURCES.

W. R. Inge: Life, Light and Love. 1904. (Selections from Eckart, Tauler, Suso, Ruysbroeck, etc.).

H. Denifle: "M. Eckeharts lateinische Schriften und die Grundanschauung seiner Lehre." Archiv fuer Literaturund Sprachgeschichte. ii. 416-652.

Meister Eckeharts Schriften und Predigten aus dem Mittelhochdeutschen uebersetzt von H. Buttner. 2 vols. 1912.

H. Seuses Deutsche Schriften uebertragen von W. Lehmann. 2 vols. 1914.

J. Taulers Predigten, uebertragen von W. Lehmann. 2 vols. 1914.

Thomas a Kempis: imitatio Christi. (So many editions and translations of this celebrated work that it is hardly necessary to specify one).

The German Theology, translated by Susannah Winkworth. 1854.

TREATISES.

Kuno Francke: "Medieval German Mysticism." Harvard Theological Review, Jan., 1912.

G. Siedel: Die Mystik Taulers. 1911.

M. Windstosser: Etude sur la 'Theologie germanique.' 1912.

W. Preger: Geschichte der deutschen Mystik im Mittelalter. 3 vols. 1874-93.

History and Life of the Rev. John Tauler, with 25 sermons, translated by Susannah Winkworth. 1858.

M. Maeterlinck: Ruysbroeck and the Mystics, with selections from Ruysbroeck, translated by J. T. Stoddard. 1894.

J. E. G. de Montmorency: Thomas a Kempis, his Age and his Book. 1906.

A. R. Burr: Religious Confessions and Confessants. 1914. (The best psychological study of mysticism).

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