Reiner Schürmann’s early engagement with Meister Eckhart seems to have been of major significance for his original thought as a philosopher and social critic. Schürmann thought “along with” Eckhart, something which enabled him to write a challenging interpretation of Eckhart at the outset of his career in 1972, a book which maintains its value fifty years after its original publication. This essay evaluates the significance of that book, Wandering Joy, in the past half-century of Eckhartian studies.

Addressed to historians of medieval and Byzantine thought, philosophers and theologians, Eriugena: East and West provides an in-depth study of how the great Irish scholar, John Scottus Eriugena, bridged the gap between Eastern, Greek-speaking Christianity and the Latin West. In these essays, selected from the Eighth International Colloquium of the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies, 12 scholars not only focus on one crucial exemplar of the history of Christian ecumenism, but also open a fruitful discussion about the contemporary (...) challenges that continue to divide Christian theology, East and West. (shrink)