Erigena
Americannoun
noun
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Yet as much as any man, Erigena deserves to be called the father of the Middle Ages.
From Time Magazine Archive
Probably no heretic had a more pervasive influence on the thinking of the church than the witty, 9th century Irish scholar-monk, John Scotus Erigena.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the ninth century there lived few more remarkable men in Western Europe than John Scotus Erigena, the celebrated Irish theologian, philosopher and poet.
From Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) by Various
Men of the profoundest metaphysical genius, like Scotus Erigena and Leibnitz, have affirmed it, and sought to give it a logical or scientific basis.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
Of two names which Hallam thinks worth rescuing from the darkness of the dark ages, one is the Irish metaphysician, John Erigena.
From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)
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