Complex sentence: Another alternative meaning for "transcendentalism" is the classical philosophy that God transcends the manifest world, as John Scotus Erigena put it to Frankish king Charles the Bald in the year 840 AD.
Split into simpler sentences: Another alternative meaning for "transcendentalism" is the classical philosophy that God transcends the manifest world. As John Scotus Erigena put it to Frankish king Charles the Bald in the year 840 AD.