“If you seek God and seek Him for your own profit and bliss, then in truth you are not seeking God.”
(German sermon 11, trans M. O’C. Walshe)
The Eckhart Society Washington DC 2025 Conference
Meister Eckhart for Today – Special U.S. Conference
May 15-17, 2025 – St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
Thursday 15th May (Gathering, Overview)
Friday 16th May – Saturday 17th May (Talks, Reflections)
St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington D.C.
Speakers:
- Keynote: Joel Harrington, PhD
- Vanderbilt University Professor of History, German Studies, Religion
– “How Dangerous Was/Is Meister Eckhart?”
- Vanderbilt University Professor of History, German Studies, Religion
- Anastasia Wendlinder, PhD (Gonzaga University)
– Eckhart & Spirituality in a Post-Covid World - Yossef Schwartz, PhD (Tel Aviv University)
– Mysticism’s Challenge to Philosophy: Past and Present - L.J. Milone, D.Min. (Catholic Cathedral, Washington, D.C.)
– “The Nothing Whose Light is All Lights”: Reflections on Sermon 71 - M. Ali Lakhani, KC (Sacred Web)
– The Nature of Nature: A Comparative Look at “Nature” in Eckhart, Sufism and Shakespeare’s King Lear - Ronald Haynes, MA (University of Cambridge)
– Eckhart on Stages/Stagnation in Spiritual Science - Marvin Lee Anderson, PhD (University of Toronto)
– ‘Not Yet Mother’: Mary as Eckhart’s Exemplar for Birthing God in a Time of Fear - EXTRA: Henning Doerr (Cologne, Germany)
– ‘I beg you father that they will be one like we are one’ (Newly discovered Easter sermons in Tauler, 1543)
Booking for Eckhart Society Special U.S. Conference 2025
(Rates same for in-person / online participants)
To Register: www.tinyurl.com/eckhart-dc or use QR code 
– Please Donate the Amount With Which You Are Comfortable
Open to All – Register to join In-person or Online via Zoom
– (Registration for US addresses / International/non-US addresses – register below)
Onsite refreshments available through each day
Options for food and accommodation will be shared with registrants
Pending donations, funded places where needed may be arranged
For more information, please contact:
The Administrator 4 Turpins Green, Maidenhead, SL6 4QE, England. / hilary.monaghan@turpinsacs.co.uk
Please Donate the Amount With Which You Are Comfortable(D.C. Conference – International/non-US addresses)
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