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The Middle Ages (West) (500-1500 AD) (John Tauler)
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16. John Tauler (1300-1361)
(1) He was born at Strassburg in about 1300. He was a disciple of Meister Eckhart who was more practical and sensitive.
(2) He joined the Dominican monastery and became a its friar there and came under the influenced of Eckhart, who was teaching at Strassburg.
(3) He also later studied under Eckhart at Cologne, and he himself became a leading spiritual teacher and he helped to spread some of Eckhart's Ideas.
(4) He Stressed the practical side of mysticism and aimed his teaching not at the spiritual elite but at all Christians. He was a preacher rather than a writer.
(5) He devoted himself to caring for the sick during the Black Death (1348-49), which enhanced his reputation.
(6) His only genuine works which have survived are some sermons which were preached before nuns and recorded at a later date. It was his brand of mysticism which became popular in the 14th and 15th centuries.
(7) It was influential in the 'Rhineland and school of mysticism (which produced a work called the German Theology, admired by Luther), in the English mystical tradition and in the Modern Devotion, of which Thomas a' Kempis is the best-known representative.
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