Studies in John the Scot (Erigena)
Subtitle: a philosopher of the Dark Ages
Publisher: H. Frowde
Published: 1900
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: CHAPTER I.; title: THE FRANCO-ROMAN, THE GREEK, AND THE IRISHMAN  1-23; title: Scotus, the Irishman, introducing Dionysius Areopagitica, the Greek, to Charles the Bald, the Franco-Roman, 1. Character and historical position of Charles, 2. Works of Dionysius and traditions respecting him, 5. John the Scot : facts and fictions of his life, 11. His character as mediator between East and West, 15. Three critical periods in Christian thought, 21.; title: CHAPTER II.; title: THE UNKNOWN GOD 24-45; title: Theological tone of Scotus and of his times, 24. Semitic and Hellenic ideas of the Divine, 27. Dionysius on the Transcendent God, 28. Scotus considers the categories inapplicable to God, 31. Subjective character of his theology, 32. Nature of revelation, 33. Creation, 37. Fourfold division of nature, 40. Rejection of Pantheism, 43. Acceptance of Christian doctrines in a mystic sense, 43.; title: CHAPTER III.; title: THE PREDESTINARIAN CONTROVERSY. 46-72; title: Scotus not naturally controversial, 46. Beginning of disputes on Dual Predestination, 49. Hincmar of Rheims, 49. Questions involved in that of Predestination, 50. Character of mediaeval controversy, 53. Three conflicting views, 54. Beginnings of Gottschalk, 55. Rabanus Maurus and the Councils of Metz and Chiersey, 58. Confessions, sufferings and death of Gottschalk, 61. Appeal to Scotus, 63. His treatise De Divina Praedtatinatione, 64. Opposed by Prudentius and Remigius, 67. New articles of Chiersey and of Valence, 69. Bearing of questions on that of ecclesiastical authority, 70.; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: Symbolism and Sacrament. Part taken by Scotus in the Eucharistic Controversy. 73-96; title: Relation of philosophy to theology, 73. Connexion of Eucharistic controversy with that on Predestination, 74. Ideas of Scotus on sacraments and symbols, 76. Interpretations of ritual and myth by Hellenes and Christians, 77. Dionysius on the Communion, 81. Scotus on sacramental character of all nature and of Christian ritual, 83. Early beliefs as to change in the consecrated elements, 85. Treatise of Radbertus, 85. Rabanus and Ratramnus oppose, 87. Lanfranc and Berengarius, 89. Did Scotus write a book on the subject? — three theories, 91. Sacramental views of Scotus above those of either party, 93.; title: CHAPTER V.; title: SCOTUS AS OPTIMIST 97- 114; title: Question of optimism and evil more proper than the others to the system of Scotus, 97. Evil only apparent, 99. Theory of cyclic revolutions, 100. Intellectual and moral difficulties, 10 1. Final return of the sensible world into God, 105. His interpretation of the Fall of Man, 107. The Incarnation of the Logos, 109. Nature of final punishment, 109. Steps towards the consummation, 112. Scotism and Nirvana, 113.; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: SCOTUS AS SUBJECTIVE IDEALIST 115-132; title: Scotus and modem thinkers, 115. Discussion as to existent and non-existent, with theory of locus, 118. Matter not conceived apart from mind, 121. The world as existing in and for consciousness only, 122. Time aud space as mental conditions, 124. Identification of thought and being, 126. The Divine as realized in human consciousness, 128. Relation of Scotus to Nominalists and Realists, 130; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: THE INFLUENCE OF SCOTUS. CONCLUSION 133-145; title: Influence of Scotus not confined to that of his writings, 133. His principles and those of Tauler and the Freunde Gottes, 135. The Theologia Germanica, 136. His followers persecuted as heretics : Amalric of Bhoe, 136. David of Dinant, 138. Bull of Honorius III against De Divisione Naturae , 139. It is put on the Index, 140. Contrasts between Scotus and most of his contemporaries, 141. Not modern because not historical, 143. His ethics, 144. His merit as an independent thinker, 145.