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By Hilary A. Mooney

ISBN-10: 3161490894

ISBN-13: 9783161490897

Hilary Anne-Marie Mooney investigates the idea of theophany within the writings of the early medieval philosopher Johannes Scottus Eriugena. She makes a speciality of the inventive impulses which he attracts from the Scripture and he or she investigates the impression of theological and philosophical thinkers of the 1st six Christian centuries on Eriugena. the writer considers these passages of Eriugena's writings during which definitely the right time period 'theophany' is used in addition to different passages within which the time period doesn't ensue yet that are still imbued with the 'notion' of a theophanic showing of God. those strains of theophanic knowing of the unveiling of God are thought of inside Eriugena's oeuvre as an entire, together with his biblical commentaries. In her research, the writer continues theophanic constitution characterised via 4 routine elements should be unearthed in Eriugena's theology of the unveiling of God. within the a number of contexts in which he writes approximately this divine revealing (in his theology of construction, his anthropology, his account of the connection among people and God as noticeable from the viewpoint of a Christian spirituality), it's the suggestion of theophany which he makes use of to light up the connection among that that is created and its writer. In doing so, he bequeaths a wealthy theological research of the showing of God to next generations of theologians and exhibits himself to be either a coherent and artistic thinker.

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