Erigena
Americannoun
noun
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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
Yet as much as any man, Erigena deserves to be called the father of the Middle Ages.
From Time Magazine Archive
Erigena was also the author of some poems edited by L. Traube in Monumenta Germaniae historica.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
Erigena knew more Greek and carried some of it to the Court of Charles the Bald.
From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford
Erigena translated Dionysius into Latin along with the commentaries of Maximus, and his system is essentially based upon theirs.
From Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries by Besant, Annie Wood
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