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The Dominican mystics of the brine land are predominantly four figures.

The controversial and imaginative theologian and preacher, Meister Eckhart,

the deeply spiritual and influential, Johannes Toller.

The penitential, philosophical, artistic, and pious, blessed Henry Souso, and the more obscure, hidden, and recently beatified Dominican

nun, blessed Margaret Ebner.

In exploring the rich and surprising German soil of these Dominicans, we

gained some access to a school of thought that developed out of the same studium in Cologne,

where Thomas Aquinas studied under the tutelage of Albert the Great, before he left to complete

his doctorate and take the chair of the theology at the University of Paris.

Exploring the question of Dominican mysticism,

it will be important to introduce the Dominicans of the Rhineland,

while also not forgetting the patron of the Thomistic Institute and our supreme teacher.

In looking at the writing and life of the quote, unquote,

mystics of the Dominicans, we can find important connections with Aquinas,

but also derivations, some of which we should leave outside the notion

of Dominican mysticism,

especially the condemned propositions of Meister Eckhart.

This is an interesting wrinkle when we consider that Eckhart is celebrated as a teacher of the rest of the Rhineland Dominicans.

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