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
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
And done into Latin by that Scottish beast, Erigena Johannes.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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
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