John Scotus Eriugena

Question 1

What is the things that are not

Answer 1

Things which transcend the intellect and lied hid in the semina

Question 2

What are the four species

Answer 2

1. Create and not created
2. Creates and Created
3. Does not create and created
4. Does not create and not created

Question 3

How does he understands God and creation, and the negative way

Answer 3

God is manifested in creation, a theophany

Negative way is the more excellent, God is always in excess not in lacking

Question 4

HOw does he understand the oness of the world with God

Answer 4

God cannot move

Creation is coeternal. Pantheistic tendency

Question 5

What is Nihilo for Eriugena

Answer 5

It is the complete incomprehensiveness of God’s goodness, it is called nothing due to comprehension

Question 6

Eriugena’s doctrine of eternal return

Answer 6

Return of all things to God

Christ’s resurrection: Dissolution of the human body into the four elements, resurrection of the body, change of the body into spirit, return to the primordial causes, return of nature and primordial causes to God

God will be all in all

Question 7

How does JS Eriugena understand Nature

Answer 7

The totality of the things that are and the things that are not