Eriugena/Erigena, John Scotus
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Eriugena/Erigena, John Scotus (
c.810–
c.877).
Neoplatonic philosopher. He was an Irishman who became head of the palace school at Laon, but little else is known about his life. His importance lies mainly in his knowledge of Gk. and his work as translator and interpreter of
Dionysius the Areopagite,
Maximus the Confessor, and Gregory of Nyssa. His influence was muted by his condemnation in the 13th cent., and the inherent difficulty of his thought. His own treatise,
Periphyseon (On the Division of Nature), represents the first important influence of Neoplatonism on the W. since Boethius.
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The Presence of God, A History of Western Christian Mysticism, vol 2: The Growth of Mysticism.
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 6/2/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...builder of the early Middle Ages is John Scotus Erigena (died 877), an incredibly learned...figures like the great mystics John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila. In addition, as McGinn shows, Erigena emphasized in the West (largely...
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Dennis McCort. Going Beyond the Pairs: the Coincidence of Opposites in German Romanticism, Zen, and Deconstruction.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Symposium; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...and Thomas Aquinas as his mystical mind-set owes to Plato and Plotinus, Augustine and the Pseudo-Dionysius, John Scotus Erigena, not to omit Thomas a Kempis and Meister Eckhart. No need to dwell on the way we academics continue to caricature...
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ARCHETYPES AND COPIES IN THOMAS'S TRISTAN: A RE-EXAMINATION OF THE SALLE AUX IMAGES SCENES.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...the Byzantine emperor Michael presented them to Louis the Pious in 827, and more widely available first through John Scotus Erigena's commentary on The Celestial Hierarchy and later through Hugh of St. Victor's twelfth-century commentary...
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Mind your language
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 8/29/1998; ; 594 words
; `HAS it got John Hunter?' asked my husband as I sat...director of Thelma and Louise, but not John Scotus Erigena, the influential medieval philosopher...are fed six kings of Portugal called John, with their dates, for heaven's...
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Heresy
Magazine article from: Freethought Today; 6/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...garments in acknowledgement of her crime. St. John Chrysostom (John Golden-Mouth) called woman more harmful than...decided to consider women part of humanity.10 John Scotus Erigena stated that at the end of the world, however...
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The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity: 200-1336.
Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion; 6/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...from Tertullian, Origen, Cyril of Jerusalem, Gregory of Nyssa, Jerome, and Augustine, on to Peter Lombard, John Scotus Erigena, Otto of Freising, Bonaventure, and Thomas Acquinas. The voices of marginals - sundry "heretics" and women...
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John Scotus Erigena
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
John Scotus Erigena The Irish philosopher and theologian John Scotus Erigena (ca. 810-ca. 877) wrote "On...the 7th and 8th centuries, gave to John Scotus Erigena a philosophical turn of mind as well...
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Scotus Erigena, John
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Scotus Erigena, John ( John the Scot ) ( c. 810–77), of Irish origin, was employed as teacher at the court of Charles the Bald, afterwards emperor, c. 847. The leading principle of his philosophy, as expounded in his great...
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Eriugena/Erigena, John Scotus
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Eriugena/Erigena, John Scotus ( c. 810– c. 877). Neoplatonic philosopher. He was an Irishman who became head of the palace school at Laon, but...
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John Scotus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Scotus see Duns Scotus, John ; Erigena, John Scotus .
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Scotus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Scotus see Erigena, John Scotus ; Duns Scotus .
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