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The writings of John Scotus Eriugena (c.800-c.877) represent the most significant encounter of Greek and Latin patristic cultures in the West after Boethius. Eriugena translated works by St Gregory of Nyssa, St Maximus the Confessor, and the entire Corpus of writings attributed to the Athenian convert of St Paul, St Dionysius the (pseudo-)Areopagite. His masterwork, the Periphyseon (On Natures), is a dialogue between a teacher and disciple in which cosmology and anthropology are deeply united: the main lineament of their discussion runs from an exegesis of the ‘Six Days of Creation and the Fall’, to a meditation on the ‘Last Things, the Return of all Creatures to God and the Resurrection’. Eriugena adheres throughout to Maximus the Confessor’s conception of human nature as the ‘workshop of creation’ wherein ‘all things are created’ and through which all things are redeemed. Christ as Logos and Wisdom grounds this integral interrelation of humanity and the whole of creation, which Eriugena develops in the striking notion that human perspective on God is also in a sense God’s own self-manifestation (‘theophany’) – the unity of the ascent to God and the divine descent to humanity.
Evan King is a PhD student in Divinity at Cambridge. He is writing an historical and philosophical analysis of the Exposition on the Elements of Theology of Proclus by Berthold of Moosburg, O.P. (mid-14th century).
Evan King is a PhD student in Divinity at Cambridge. He is writing an historical and philosophical analysis of the Exposition on the Elements of Theology of Proclus by Berthold of Moosburg, O.P. (mid-14th century).
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