Article: John Scotus

Article: John Scotus Erigena
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ...John Scotus Erigena The Irish philosopher and theologian John Scotus Erigena (ca. 810-ca. 877) wrote ... in the 7th and 8th centuries, gave to John Scotus Erigena a philosophical turn of mind as ...

Article: American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly vol. 79, no. 4, Fall ...
The Review of Metaphysics;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...John Scotus Eriugena: A Christian Philosopher, AVITAL ... This article discusses the development of John Scotus Eriugena's teaching on the spiritual ... praedestinatione, as well as in the Periphyseon, John Scotus understands the spiritual body as ethereal ...

Dictionary definition: Eriugena/Erigena, John Scotus
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions;      336 words ...Eriugena/Erigena, John Scotus ( c. 810– c. 877). Neoplatonic philosopher. He was an Irishman who became head of the palace school at Laon, but ...

Dictionary definition: John the Sage
The Oxford Dictionary of Saints;      339 words ... ... whose epitaph he transcribed. He believed that this was John Scotus Erigena, the Irish philosopher of the 9th century ... after 1100 , pp. 75–6, R.P.S. ; for John Scotus Erigena see O.D.C.C. , s.v.

Dennis McCort. Going Beyond the Pairs: the Coincidence of Opposites in ...
Symposium;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Aristotle 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 ...

Article: That magical number
The Spectator;  February 27, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... achievements scarcely rivalled by other Roman successor-states. It produced prodigious intellectuals in Bede and John Scotus, outstanding administrators - Alfred, Offa, Athelstan, Edgar, Dunstan, Wulfstan, `the Billy Graham of the Year ...

Article: Obituary: T. A. M. Bishop
The Independent - London;  May 5, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... accompanied them, have not yet been published. The work on Corbie was augmented by definitive papers on the script of John Scotus Eriugena, a brilliant Irish philosopher in the west Frankish kingdom in the second half of the ninth century, and ...