Iohannes Scottus Eriugena

In the month of June, 1995, the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies held its ninth International Colloquium at Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve. The Colloquium was devoted to Eriugena's hermeneutics and his interpretation of the Bible.

The feature of Biblical hermeneutics is of main interest for a thinker like Eriugena. For him the source and the end of all truth is the understanding of Sacred Scripture. To unravel this inconcussa auctoritas diuinae Scripturae all hermeneutical skills have to be brought into play, in order to give rise to a true spiritual understanding of the Bible.

This volume contains the contributions presented at the Colloquium, which shed light on numerous aspects of Eriugena's hermeneutics of Scripture. Without imposing too rigid a classification, the contributions to this book can be listed under four headings. The first two studies present large-scale tableaux, establishing the context within which Eriugena undertook his biblical studies. In a second group of articles, attention is paid more directly to the specifically Eriugenian method of understanding Sacred Scripture. The theoretical aspects of Eriugena's exegesis, as established in the second part, are adapted in the third, in which Eriugena's interpretation of particular Biblical texts is investigated. The fourth and last heading, then, would contain studies in the range and method of Eriugena's exegesis, with particular attention to manuscript sources, and to new texts to be included into the opera of John Scottus.

A bibliographical survey is added to the volume. It is intended to complement the work of M. BRENNAN, A Guide to Eriugenian Studies. A Survey of Publications 1930-1987 / Guide des études érigéniennes. Bibliographie commentée des publications 1930-1987 (Vestigia, 5), Fribourg (Éditions Universitaires)/Paris (Éditions du Cerf), 1989. Given the ever-increasing interest in the study of Eriugena and the corresponding growth in the number of publications dedicated to Eriugena's life, work, and influence, the editors believed it would be beneficial to provide a bibliographical survey for the period from 1987 onwards. The large number of references from this relatively brief period can be considered as amply justifying this enterprise.

"Iohannes Scottus Eriugena" was edited by Carlos Steel, James Mc Evoy and Gerd Van Riel.

Carlos Steel is emeritus professor of ancient and medieval philosophy at KU Leuven and director of the “Aristoteles Latinus” project.

Gerd Van Riel is professor of ancient philosophy at the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy.

Gerd Van Riel is als gewoon hoogleraar antieke filosofie verbonden aan het Hoger Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte (De Wulf-Mansioncentrum) van de KU Leuven. Zijn specialisatiedomein is de filosofie van Plato en de Platoonse traditie.

Yes, "Iohannes Scottus Eriugena" is part of the "Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1" series. It's book 20 in the series.

In association with The De Wulf-Mansion Centre.

About the Series

The series' focus lies primarily on the continuity and thematic transitions between ancient, medieval and renaissance thought, but also includes volumes on specific topics related to any of those periods. ‘Philosophy' is understood broadly to include metaphysics, ethics, natural philosophy, epistemology and philosophy of mind, and philosophical theology. Since the series is particularly devoted to making available Latin and Greek source texts, we welcome critical text editions as well as contributions that are based on philological scrutiny of those texts, without losing sight of their philosophical importance.

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1 aims to publish at least two volumes a year and accepts monographs as well as thematically coherent edited volumes in English (without excluding the possibility of French, German, or Italian contributions to edited volumes). Manuscripts should be 80.000 to 120.000 words in length.

Readership

Researchers and graduate students in ancient, medieval and renaissance philosophy, in classics and in history.

Editorial Coordinator

Russell Friedman, KU Leuven, Belgium

Editorial Board

Pieter Beullens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Lisa Devriese, KU Leuven, Belgium
Pieter d'Hoine, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jan Opsomer, KU Leuven, Belgium
Jenny Pelletier, KU Leuven, Belgium
Andrea Robiglio, KU Leuven, Belgium
Carlos Steel, KU Leuven, Belgium
Gerd Van Riel, KU Leuven, Belgium

Advisory Board

Brad Inwood, Yale Universityo, USA
Jill Kraye, The Warburg Institute, London, United Kingdom
John Marenbon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lodi Nauta, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Timothy Noone (†) , The Catholic University of America, USA
Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Martin Pickavé, University of Toronto, Canada,
Pasquale Porro, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Geert Roskam, KU Leuven, Belgium

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Links & Resources

Foreword
List of Contributors
Abbreviations of Editions

Introduction. News and Views on Eriugena's Hermeneutics
James McEvoy

Carolingian Biblical Culture
John J. Contreni

The Irish Tradition of Biblical Exegesis, A.D. 550-800
Martin McNamara

The Originality of Eriugena's Spiritual Exegesis
Bernard McGinn

The Parallelism of Nature and Scripture: Reflections on Eriugena's Incarnational ExegesisWillemien Otten

Biblical Contradictions in the Periphyseon and the Development of Eriugena's Method
Thomas o' Loughlin

Le rà´le herméneutique de la foi dans la pensée érigénienne
José Luis Cantón Alsonso

Scriptural Truth in the Periphyseon
Jack C. Marler

The Eriugenian Concept of Theology: John the Evangelist as the Model Theologian
Agnieszka Kijewska

Five Wise Virgins: Theosis and Return in Periphyseon V
Deirdre Carabine

Primordiales Causae in Eriugena's Interpretation of Genesis: Sources and Significance
Robert D. Crouse

Denial or Promise of the Tree of Life? Eriugena, Augustine and Genesis 3:22b
Donald F. Duclow

The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
Carlos Steel

Eriugena's Ars Rhetorica: Theory and Practice
Stephen Gersh

Grammar and Dialectic: A Topical Issue in the Ninth Century
Anneli Luhtala

John Scottus and the Biblical Manuscripts Attributed to the Circle of Sedulius
Michael W. Herren

Recherches sur les 'Tractatus in Matheum' attribués à Jean Scot
Gustavo A. Piemonte

Artifex Scriptura
Édouard Jeauneau

A Bibliographical Survey of Eriugenian Studies 1987-1995
Gerd Van Riel

Index