The world of the ninth century -- Eriugena's life and intellectual achievements -- The structure of reality -- Creator and creation -- Human nature in paradise -- Human nature in the world -- The return.
Summary
This is an introduction to the 9th-century philosopher and theologian John Scottus Eriugena, perhaps the most important philosophical thinker in Latin Christendom in the period between Augustine and Anselm. Eriugena was known as the interpreter of Greek thought to the Latin West.
