Erigena

[ ih-rij-uh-nuh ]

noun

1. Jo·han·nes Sco·tus [joh-, han, -eez , skoh, -t, uh, s, -, han, -is], a.d. c810–c877, Irish philosopher and theologian.

Erigena

/ ˌɛrɪˈdʒiːnə /

noun

1. ErigenaJohn Scotus?800?877MIrishPHILOSOPHY: philosopher John Scotus. ?800–?877 ad , Irish Neo-Platonist philosopher

Example Sentences

The modem world is apt to forget that several people were Christians in the remote past, and in Lancelot's time there were no Protestants—except John Scotus Erigena.

From Literature

The heresy was thus crushed in its birthplace, where we hear no more of it except that there were teachers of it in Dauphiné, where they were confounded with the Waldenses, and that in 1225 Honorius III. ordered the destruction of the Periphyseos of Erigena, which was thought to have given rise to Amauri’s speculations.

From Project Gutenberg

For the connection between the speculations of Erigena and those of Amauri see Poole’s “Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought,” London, 1884, p.

From Project Gutenberg

In this way Erigena, the greatest of realists, spoke of God as that which neither acts nor is acted upon, neither loves nor is loved; and then, as if frightened by these blank words, avowed that God though he does not love is in a way Love itself, defining love as the finis quietaque statio of the natural motion of all things that move.

From Project Gutenberg

Erigena, the brilliant prophet and protestant19 of the first period of 36the scholastic philosophy, was virtually a pantheist after the pattern of Parmenides20; as Spinoza was the last great realist.

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