Johannes Tauler (about 1300 to 16 June 1361) was a German Dominican friar, preacher and mystic, one of the most important of the Rhineland mystics. Born in Strasbourg, he entered the Dominican order as a young man, studied there and at Cologne, and began preaching around 1330, mostly to convents of Dominican nuns. During the exile of the Dominicans from Strasbourg he lived at Basel among the Friends of God, and he stayed in the city through the earthquake, fire and Black Death of the 1340s. He taught that the state of the soul depends more on a personal relationship with God than on outward practices, and he gave Dominican spirituality a neo-platonist cast. He left about eighty sermons in Middle High German, printed first at Leipzig in 1498. Meister Eckhart greatly influenced him, and Valentin Weigel later drew on his mysticism.
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Johannes Tauler OP (c. 1300 – 16 June 1361) was a German mystic, a Catholic priest and a theologian.
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He was born about the year 1300 in Strasbourg, and seems to have been the son of Nikolus Tauler
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Johannes Tauler (c. 1300-1361) was a German philosopher of the Medieval era
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entered the Dominican Order in his native city
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Johannes Tauler was a German Dominican preacher and mystic
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Johannes Tauler OP (c. 1300-16 June 1361) was a German mystic, a Catholic priest and a theologian.
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He was born about the year 1300 in Strasbourg, and seems to have been the son of Nikolus Tauler
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Tauler worked with the Friends of God, and it was with them that he taught his belief that the state of the soul was affected more by a personal relationship with God than by external practices.
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Johannes Tauler OP (c. 1300-16 June 1361) was a German mystic, a Catholic priest and a theologian.
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Johannes Tauler OP (c. 1300-16 June 1361) was a German mystic, a Catholic priest and a theologian.
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Tauler worked with the Friends of God, and it was with them that he taught his belief that the state of the soul was affected more by a personal relationship with God than by external practices.
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His mysticism was marked by that of Johannes Tauler and by doctrines of Paracelsus
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