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Not My Will but Thy Will Be Done

Abstract Although in his own day some of the teachings of Meister Eckhart were considered heretical, in modern times many scholars have disputed that medieval assessment and have taken his views to be squarely within the Dominican tradition and even Thomist. Without commenting on this dispute over the general assessment of Eckhart’s thought, in this paper, I highlight one place where the theories of Eckhart and Aquinas do diverge. This place has to do with the appropriate Christian response to the problem of suffering. The heart of the difference between the two lies in their divergent understandings of willing what God wills. On this score not only do Eckhart and Aquinas differ, but Aquinas’s view is to be preferred, as I try to show.