In the ninth century, a Christian mystical philosopher tried to end the world (as we know it), with a book. The Philosopher: John Scotus Eriugena, the Book: Periphyseon, On the Division of Nature. Exploring Eriugena's philosophical system and the deifying implications it holds for us humans, soon to be, and always have been, Gods.
00:00 Welcome and Cameo
00:43 Key Facts
02:37 Philosophical Influences
03:40 Philosophical System
06:54 Scotus’ Innovation
08:21 Creation as Theophany
12:43 Dialectical Pantheism
14:23 Fall and Return of All Things
15:31 Theosis, Deification - Heaven and Hell
19:35 Uniting Worlds
22:33 Condemnation
24:16 Influence and Study
25:07 Conclusion
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Sources and Further Reading:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scottus-eriugena/
Bett, Henry, 1925, Johannes Scotus Erigena: A Study in Medieval Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Carabine, Deirdre, 2000, John Scottus Eriugena, (Great Medieval Thinkers), Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press.
Duclow, Don, 2006, Masters of Learned Ignorance, Eriugena, Eckhart, Cusanus, Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
Gavin, John, 2014, A Celtic Christology, Eugene, OR: Wipf&Stock
Gersh, Stephen, 1978, From Iamblichus to Eriugena: An Investigation of the Prehistory and Evolution of the Pseudo-Dionysian Tradition, Leiden: Brill.
Gersh, Stephen and Dermot Moran (eds.), 2006, Eriugena, Berkeley, and the Idealist Tradition, Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press
McEvoy, James and Dunne, Michael (eds.), 2002, History and Eschatology in John Scottus Eriugena and His Time, Leuven University Press.
McGinn, Bernard and Willemien Otten (eds.), 1994, Eriugena. East and West, Notre Dame, Notre Dame University Press.
Moran, Dermot, 1989, The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena. A Study of Idealism in the Middle Ages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
–––, 1990, “Pantheism from John Scottus Eriugena to Nicholas of Cusa”, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 64(1): 131–152.
–––, 1992b, “Origen and Eriugena: Aspects of Christian Gnosis”, in The Relationship Between Neoplatonism and Christianity, Thomas Finan and Vincent Twomey (eds), Dublin: Four Courts Press.
–––, 1999, “Idealism in Medieval Philosophy: The Case of Johannes Scottus Eriugena”, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, 8(1): 53–82
O’Meara, John J., 1969, Eriugena, Cork: Mercier Press.
–––, 1988, Eriugena, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Otten, Willemien, 1991, The Anthropology of Johannes Scottus Eriugena, Leiden: Brill.
Otten, Willemien and Ludwig Bieler (eds.), 1973, The Mind of Eriugena, Dublin: Irish University Press.
Otten, Willemien and Michael Allen (eds.), 2014, Eriugena and Creation, Turnhout: Brepols.
Sheldon-Williams, I.-P., 1970, “The Greek Platonist Tradition from the Cappadocians to Maximus and Eriugena”, in The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Thought, A.H. Armstrong (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 421–534.
Siewers, Alfred, 2014, Re-imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics, Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press.
Stock, Brian, 1967, The Philosophical Anthropology of Johannes Scotus Eriugena, Studi Medievali, Ser. 3 (8): 1–57.
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