A Companion to John Scottus Eriugena

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-38267-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 86, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 930 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

John Scottus Eriugena (d. ca. 877) is regarded as the most important philosopher and theologian in the Latin West from the death of Boethius until the thirteenth century. He incorporated his understanding of Latin sources, Ambrose, Augustine, Boethius and Greek sources, including the Cappadocian Fathers, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Maximus Confessor, into a metaphysics structured on Aristotle’s Categories, from which he developed Christian Neoplatonist theology that continues to stimulate 21st-century theologians.

This collection of essays provides an overview of the latest scholarship on various aspects of Eriugena’s thought and writings, including his Irish background, his use of Greek theologians, his Scripture hermeneutics, his understanding of Aristotelian logic, Christology, and the impact he had on contemporary and later theological traditions.

Contributors: David Albertson, Joel Barstad, John Contreni, Christophe Erismann, John Gavin, Adrian Guiu, Michael Harrington, Catherine Kavanagh, A. Kijewska, Stephen Lahey, Elena Lloyd-Sidle, Bernard McGinn, Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi, Dermot Moran, Giulio D’Onofrio, Willemien Otten, and Alfred Siewers

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guiu, Adrian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Eriugena’s Works

Abbreviations for Commonly Cited Secondary Sources

Introduction

Adrian Guiu

Part 1: Background and Context

1 Eriugena’s Irish Backgrounds

Alfred Kentigern Siewers

2 John Scottus, Nutritor, and the Liberal Arts

John J. Contreni

3 Eriugena and the Neoplatonic Tradition

Michael Harrington

4 Between Greek and Latin: Eriugena on Logic

Christophe Erismann

Part 2: Perspectives on the

5 A Thematic Introduction to and Outline of the Periphyseon for the Alumnus

Elena M. Lloyd-Sidle

6 A Theologian’s Itinerary: John Scottus Eriugena’s Christological Ascent

John Gavin, S.J.

7 The Periphyseon as Hexaemeral Commentary

Bernard McGinn

8 Suspended between Cosmology and Anthropology: Natura’s Bond in Eriugena’s Periphyseon

Willemien Otten

9 The Speculative System of John Scottus Eriugena and the Tradition of Vera Philosophia

Giulio d’Onofrio

Part 3: The other Eriugena

10 Eriugena’s Intervention in the Debate on Predestination

Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi

11 Eriugena as Translator and Interpreter of the Greek Fathers

Joel I. Barstad

12 Eriugena Reads Maximus Confessor: Christology as Cosmic Theophany

Adrian Guiu

13 Eriugena the Exegete: Hermeneutics in a Biblical Context

Catherine Kavanagh

Part 4: The Aftermath of Eriugena

14 Eriugena’s Influence on the 12th Century

Agnieszka Kijewska

15 Echoes of Eriugena in Renaissance Philosophy: Negation, Theophany, Anthropology

David Albertson

16 The Reception of Eriugena in Modernity: A Critical Appraisal of Eriugena’s Dialectical Philosophy Of Infinite Nature

Dermot Moran

17 Eriugena’s Condemnation and His Idealism

Stephen Lahey

Appendix: Benedict XVI Assesses Eriugena

Bibliography

Ancient and Medieval Names and Sources

Modern Authors

Subjects related to Eriugena

Über Autor(innen)

Adrian Guiu. Ph.D (2014), University of Chicago, is Professor of Religion, Philosophy and Humanities at Wilbur Wright College in Chicago. He has published various articles on the work of Maximus Confessor and of John Scottus Eriugena.