Few theologians have accomplished the feat of integrating the classical concept of henosis with Christianity, but Eckhart made it through with his impressive oratory skills and an acute skepticism towards the doctrines and claims set forth by the church, which earned him the title of heretic among the many disparaging accusations the church attempted to denigrate him with on the cusp of his death. Eckhart zealously retraces the steps of the early medieval Pseudo-Dyonisus and John Scous Eriugena but takes apophatic theology to the extremes, negating multiplicity, reality and above all time itself, which is the foremost agent responsible for our distraction based on earthly attachments. His chief aim is to attain a clear vision of God through the total negation of the surrounding universe and the removal of the numerous thoughts which hinder our individual intellects from visualizing the simple, undivided and all-embracing nature of God, and he cites both his pagan and Christian predecessors to get his point across. It shouldn't really come as a shock that his sermons caused controversy in an age where the church held sway over the social apparatus, because Eckhart goes as far as to deny the utility of prayers (in his treatise on detachment) and encourage spiritual divorce even from the God whose existence the scholastics persistently strove to define through crude empirical evidence. Needless to say, after his death the church continued to defame the German theologian, sought to suppress his followers and sweep his teachings under the rug, but in the end did not manage to eradicate the heresy. The depth of Eckhart's theology does not favor any particular established religion, but his sermons are a cornerstone of modern Neoplatonism and Christian Mysticism. ( )