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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Erigena in all probability never left France, and Haur�au has advanced some reasons for fixing the date of his death about 877.

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

Maurice, the only historian of note who declines to ascribe a rationalizing tendency to Erigena, obscures the question by the manner in which he states it.

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

For the connection between the speculations of Erigena and those of Amauri see Poole’s “Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought,” London, 1884, p.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles