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
This was probably due to their unsystematic character, for they are generally tracts or dialogues on detached questions, not elaborate treatises like the great works of Albert, Aquinas, and Erigena.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
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 T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
This also has been preserved, and fragments of a commentary by Erigena on Dionysius have been discovered in MS.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
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