- Lived:
- c. 1260, Thuringia (central Germany) – c. January 1328, probably Avignon
- Tradition:
- Medieval Christian; German Dominican scholasticism flowering into speculative mysticism
- The Big Idea:
- Beneath everything you think of as "you" lies a ground where the soul and God are not two things — and God must be born there, in you, now.
- In their words:
- "God's ground is my ground, and my ground is God's ground."
- If you remember one thing:
- He held the most prestigious chair in Christian theology — twice — and he is the only master in this book put on trial by the Inquisition for his sermons. He died with the verdict still pending, and his ideas spent six centuries circulating under other people's names.