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Father of the Middle Ages. 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. "A humanist ahead of his time," as Nigg calls him. Erigena taught at the short-lived but brilliant Palace Academy of France's King Charles the Bald, and developed a highly individual theology that often sounds like an amalgam of intellectual strains from the best current Protestant thinking. He thought of God as "overtruth" and "the overwisdom"-phrases that would not be out of place in the Systematic Theology...
...Erigena was judged a heretic by a church synod in 855. and he was murdered, so legend has it, by a group of his outraged disciples, who stabbed him to death with knives and styluses in his church. His major works were formally condemned by Pope Honorius III in 1225. Yet as much as any man, Erigena deserves to be called the father of the Middle Ages. Erigena's own writing attempted to prove that there was an inner unity of true philosophy and true religion-the fundamental principle of medieval scholastic philosophy. "If we were to seek...
...reality-value is infinitely manifold and inexhaustible. So are also man, society, and culture as a part of the reality-value. It has empirical (sensory) and super-empirical aspects; rational and irrational; logical and non-logical, material and non-material. It is a veritable coincidentia oppositorium of Johannes Scotus Erigena and Nicolaus Cusanus. --Professor Sorokin in the Harvard Progressive...
...Philosophy of Scotius Erigena," Professor Gilson, Emerson F, Philosophy...
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