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Erigena

American  
[ih-rij-uh-nuh] / ɪˈrɪdʒ ə nə /

noun

  1. Johannes Scotus a.d. c810–c877, Irish philosopher and theologian.


Erigena British  
/ ˌɛrɪˈdʒiːnə /

noun

  1. John Scotus. ?800–?877 ad , Irish Neo-Platonist philosopher

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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.

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Some early writers thought there were two persons, John Scotus and John Erigena.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various

Erigena, the brilliant prophet and protestant19 of the first period of 36the scholastic philosophy, was virtually a pantheist after the pattern of Parmenides20; as Spinoza was the last great realist.

From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford

But it is time to think of Johannes Scotus Erigena; the most facetious wag of his times, notwithstanding his sirname of the Wise.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

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