Martin Bieler

Matter as an Image of the Good

Philosophy

“What the scholastics called materia prima, designates the fundamental changeability of all corporal beings. Materia gives us the chance to become over time ‘essential’ (wesenhaft: Meister Eckhart) by living in the ‘unity of life and death’ (Ferdinand Ulrich). In her remarkable book Rachel Coleman unfolds in detail the principles in Ulrich’s work, with which he describes materia as an essential part of God’s giving of being (creation), that establishes our freedom.”