Johannes Tauler promoted a certain neo-platonist dimension in the Dominican spirituality of his time.
14 Facts About Johannes Tauler
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Johannes Tauler entered the Dominican order at the age of about eighteen, and was educated at the Dominican convent in that city.
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Johannes 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 returned to Strasbourg around 1343, but the following years brought various crises.
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Johannes Tauler travelled fairly extensively in the last two and a half decades of his life.
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Johannes Tauler is credited with composing the words of the Advent song, Es kommt ein Schiff, geladen.
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The oldest existing text source is a manuscript dated before 1450, found in the Strasbourg Dominican convent of St Nicolaus in undis, which Johannes Tauler was known to have visited frequently.
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Johannes Tauler was buried in the Dominican church in Strasbourg with an incised gravestone that still survives in the Temple Neuf.
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Johannes Tauler left no formal treatises, either in Latin or the vernacular.
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Johannes Tauler's sermons began to be collected in his own lifetime - three fourteenth-century manuscripts date from around the time of Johannes Tauler's return to Strasbourg after his exile in Basel.
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Johannes Tauler's sermons were printed first in Leipzig in 1498, reprinted in 1508 at Augsburg, and then again with additions from Eckhart and others at Basel, at Halberstadt, at Cologne, and in Lisbon.
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Johannes Tauler has at times been claimed as one of several notable Christian universalists in the Middle Ages, along with Amalric of Bena and John of Ruysbroeck.
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Johannes Tauler's teaching that, "All beings exist through the same birth as the Son, and therefore shall they all come again to their original, that is, God the Father" has been cited in defense of this claim.
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Older English translations of Johannes Tauler include various inauthentic pieces, and were often made from the Latin version of Laurentius Surius.