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Erigena

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E·rig·e·na  (-rj-n, -rj-) or Er·iu·ge·na (r-yj-), John Scotus 810?-877?
Irish-born theologian and philosopher who sought to reconcile Neo-Platonism and Christian belief in his principal work, On the Division of Nature (862-866).
Erigena [ˌɛrɪˈdʒiːnə]
n
(Biographies / Erigena, John Scotus (?800-?877) M, Irish, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher) John Scotus. ?800-?877 ad, Irish Neo-Platonist philosopher


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The great bridge builder of the early Middle Ages is John Scotus Erigena (died 877), an incredibly learned Irishman who, among other things, translated the writings of the Pseudo-Dionysius into Latin and thus, in a stroke, started a stream of "dark" or apophatic theology which would leave its mark on every major medieval thinker as well as subsequent figures like the great mystics John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila.
The Presence of God, A History of Western Christian Mysticism, vol 2: ... by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
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