The Irish philosopher and theologian John Scotus Erigena (ca. 810-ca. 877) wrote "On the Division of Nature," one of the major philosophical works of the Middle Ages. Ireland was one of the most important cultural areas of the early Middle Ages. Irish...

John Scottus Eriugena was the most original synthetic thinker between the time of Augustine and that of Thomas Aquinas. He is certainly the greatest Irish philosopher of all time. In recognition of this preeminent status, an idealized portrait of...

Erigena, John Scotus(C. 810 1987. Fribourg, Switzerland: Editions Universitaires, 1989. Carabine, Deirdre. John Scottus Eriugena. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. McEvoy, James, and Michael Dunne, eds. History and Eschatology in John Scottus...

ERIUGENA, JOHN SCOTTUS (fl. 847–877), was a Christian theologian and philosopher. Eriugena was born in Ireland in the first quarter of the ninth century, and there he received his early education (which probably included some Greek). He appeared...

(810–877). Little is known about the life of this Irish scholar who taught the liberal arts at the court of Charles the Bald in and around Laon in northern France. Although the earlier view of Eriugena as a lonely genius in a barren period has...

c. 810-c. 877 Irish theologian and philosopher who in his De divisione naturae (862-66) put forth the theory that Mercury, Venus, Mars, and Jupiter all orbit the Sun—an extraordinarily daring notion in his time. Erigena, who taught at the court...

Johannes Scotus Eriugena (c. 815–877) (also Johannes Scotus Erigena, Johannes Scottus Eriugena, John the Irishman), was an Irish theologian, Neoplatonist philosopher, and poet. He is known for having translated and made commentaries upon the work...

Vos Jaczn, Antonie. Kerkhiistoritsche Monografieen. Leiden: J. J. Groen en Zoon, 1994. x + 284 pp.--In this monograph, Antonie Vos Jaczn surveys John Duns Scotus's theological thought, with an eye to its potential impact upon the future of Christian theology. His survey is...

John Scotus Eriugena: A Christian Philosopher, AVITAL WOHLMAN Most commentators find Eriugena's On the Division of Nature to be a variation on the theme of emanation, which flows from the One and back to it, bypassing concrete reality. The intention of this...

In the following essay, O'Meara explains Eriugena's use of the word natura and considers his purpose in describing a fourfold division of it.

In the following essay, Makin explains how Ezra Pound made use of Eriugena's concepts in his own work.

In the following essays, Gardner discusses the roots of Eriugena's optimism and examines his views on existence, thought, and knowledge.