John Scotus Eriugena#John
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#John
John Scotus Eriugena · c. 815–877 CE
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“In the darkest century of European thought, one Greek-reading Irishman built the boldest philosophical system between antiquity and the High Middle Ages — so bold the church condemned it twice, 370 years apart.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“All of reality is one vast circle — everything flows out of a God who is beyond being itself, and everything flows back into him; the universe is God speaking himself into visibility.”
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