Eriugena’s Angels: A Case Study on a Role of Imagination in Spirituality
Anton Vydra
The question of whether our spirituality is based on imaginative abilities, or it imagination that determines the direction spirituality, a crucial issue this text. theme angels as celestial beings, interpreters and messengers, helpers “brothers humans” serves background for inquiry. Ancient, medieval, renaissance thinkers dealt with them extensively. John Scottus Eriugena, representative Carolingian Neoplatonism, had special place in context. His extensive work Periphyseon is, among other things, re-thinking reflection images time, taken mainly from patristic tradition. Eriugena was undoubtedly deeply spiritual educated man, translator Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite texts. understanding shows how much daughter his imagination, has influenced life later readers. result could be understood sign level cultivation imagination.
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