Eriugena's Commentary on the Dionysian 'Celestial Hierarchy' - Scottus Eriugena Johannes
KORTE INHOUD
?Paul Rorem is one of those experts whose detailed scholarship has yielded much knowledge about theology in the late patristic period. (?) the current study is on an excruciatingly difficult and technical medieval topic. While the works of the Carolingian thinker Johannes Scottus Eriugena (810-77 CE) are sufficiently difficult, his expositions (?) is perhaps even harder to analyse. Due to a limited knowledge of Greek, Eriugena did not always seem to understand what Dionysius was saying. Nevertheless, he insisted on providing his own translations of Dionysius, as well as of Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus Confessor. He thereby became an important bridge between the theological culture of East and West. (?) Rorem?s present work is located at the crossroads of Dionysian and Eriugenian scholarship. (?) Rorem highlights (?) Eurigena?s own creative interpretation - and intellectual transformation - of Dionysus. To this end he makes repeated excursions into Eriugena?s other works. As a result we now get a much more com...
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2005Uitgever: Brepols Publishers242 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0888441509ISBN-13: 9780888441508Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Toronto, 2005. XIV,242p. Original brown gilt stamped cloth. Series: Studies and Texts, 150. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: ROREM, P.,] [Uitgever: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies] [Jaar: 2005] [Titel: Eriugen'a Commentary on the Dionysian Celestial Hierarchy.]
