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  2. Aug 28, 2003 · Eriugena refers to the theosis or deification of human nature at Periphyseon I.449b (and elsewhere, see Periphyseon, IV.743a, IV.760d) and draws extensively on Maximus for the view that there will be a reunification of human nature with the divine (see Periphyseon, II.536d ff).

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  3. Jun 5, 2012 · In the 860s John Scottus Eriugena wrote the Periphyseon (later entitled De divisione naturae, that is, “On the Division of Nature”). The Periphyseon is a long work, filling nearly six hundred columns of the Patrologia Latina volume and containing approximately 217,450 words, written in the form of an extended dialogue between two anonymous ...

  4. The first three forms represent God's unfolding in creation, while the fourth concludes the movement of nature's return.3 The Periphyseon's five books analyze the individual forms, with the analysis of the fourth form spread out over two books. This fourth form of nature brings us to the theme of this article.

  5. Summary. Eriugena, master of the liberal arts, translator, philologue, poet, philosopher and theologian, developed the most systematic and radical form of Platonism in the Latin West until Maître Eckhart and Nicholas of Cusa – both, directly or indirectly, under his influence.

  6. As early as the end of the ninth century, these marginal notes were integrated into the text of the Periphyseon. The result is that a subject was sometimes separated from its verb, or a verb from its complement, by ten, fifteen or twenty lines of commentary.

  7. Jan 1, 2020 · Eriugenas translations of Dionysius circulated widely during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, as did his Homily on the Prologue to John (often attributed to Origen). In the thirteenth century, the Periphyseon was somewhat unfairly associated with the doctrines of two Paris theologians, David of Dinant and Amaury of Bène, and was ...

  8. Its subject, the ninth-century philosopher John Scottus Eriugena, developed a form of idealism that owed as much to the Greek Neoplatonic tradition as to the Latin fathers and anticipated the priority of the subject in its modern, most radical statement: German idealism.

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