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Johannes Scotus Eriugena

Johannes Scotus Eriugena was a ninth-century Irish philosopher and theologian at the Carolingian court who translated works of Pseudo-Dionysius into Latin. His major work, Periphyseon (On the Division of Nature), sets out a Christian Neoplatonic system dividing nature into God as uncreated

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Christian Theology De divisione naturae – Johannes Scotus Eriugena Johannes Scotus Eriugena

Eriugena's Periphyseon is a Latin dialogue dividing all reality into four species of nature, from God as creator…

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