Overshadowing Or Foreshadowing Return: The Role Of Demons In Eriugena’s Periphyseon
Willemien Otten
This chapter integrates Eriugenas demonology and his view on the human body with Periphyseon s overarching narrative. It describes how text of demons, found in book V , actually unfolds. assesses its intellectual merits light larger argument compares it to development bodily resurrection sketched by Bynum Elliott. Authors is concerned about interpretation Eriugena others as a spiritualizing alternative, Origenist overtones. In assessment has contend two complications, first which regards position Origen himself, while second addresses such an lifts out Carolingian context, turning him into quasi-heretical Greek thinker. important point that much more influenced Gregory Nyssa Maximus Confessor than Origen. Keywords: Caroline Walker Bynum; demons; Dyan Elliott; Eriugena; Nyssa; body; Origen; ;
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