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There is an obvious taste, in Meister Eckhart’s works, for the figurative (non-historical) meaning of biblical texts; consequently, the Inquisition charged him for having read the biblical narrations as myths. Nevertheless, the Eckhartian hermeneutics differs essentially in some aspects from the hermeneutics of demythologization. On the other hand, the “desimaging” process (Entbildung), which opens up another ontological level, is somehow similar to the demythologization (Entmythologisierung). But Eckhart’s mysticism is much more close to the essence of Christian revelation, as it acknowledges the centrality of the Logos (Verbum Dei), and not that of the myth.

Keywords: imago / Bilde/phantasma, desimaging / Entbildung, demythologization / Entmythologisierung, word, tropes (figures of speech), allegory, literal meaning, historical meaning, figurative meaning.