ERIUGENA AND CREATION Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Eriugenian Studies, held in honor of Edouard Jeauneau, Chicago, 9-12 November 2011 INSTRVMENTA PATRISTICA ET MEDIAEVALIA Research on the Inheritance of Early and Medieval Christianity 68 ERIUGENA AND CREATION Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Eriugenian Studies, held in honor of Edouard Jeauneau, Chicago, 9-12 November 2011 Collected and edited by Willemien O & Michael I. A TTEN LLEN 2014 INSTRVMENTA PATRISTICA ET MEDIAEVALIA Research on the Inheritance of Early and Medieval Christianity Founded by Dom Eligius Dekkers (†1998) Rita BEYERS Alexander ANDRÉE Emanuela COLOMBI Georges DECLERCQ Jeroen DEPLOIGE Paul-Augustin DEPROOST Anthony DUPONT Jacques ELFASSI Guy GULDENTOPS Mathijs LAMBERIGTS Johan LEEMANS Paul MATTEI Gert PARTOENS Marco PETOLETTI Dominique POIREL Paul TOMBEUR Marc VAN UYTFANGHE Wim VERBAAL All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. © 2014 (Turnhout – Belgium) D/2014/0095/168 ISBN 978-2-503-55175-3 (printed version) ISBN 978-2-503-55195-1 (online version) Edouard Jeauneau in his office at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto, holding the coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI who has rehabilitated the thought of Johannes Scottus Eriugena. Photo by Dr. Suan-See Foo. SPES-members of the first hour: Dublin 1970 - Dublin 2000, Royal Irish Academy. From left to right: Pádraig Ó Cléirigh, Edouard Jeauneau, John J. O’Meara, Werner Beierwaltes, Gustavo A. Piemonte, Breandán Ó Cíobháin. Photo by Willemien Otten TABLE OF CONTENTS Willemien Otten and Michael I. Allen, Introduction to the Volume. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix-xv Abbreviations and List of Eriugena’s Works . . . . xvii Paul Edward Dutton, Publications by Edouard Jeauneau, 1991-2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix-xxix Section 1 : Creation and Creativity : Eriugena and the Dynam ics of Carolingian Culture Paul Edward Dutton, Eriugena and Virgil . . . . . 3-30 John J. Contreni, Women in the Age of Eriugena . . . 31-50 Michael W. Herren, Cultures of Grace : Eriugena and Celtic Christianity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51-83 Jeremy C. Thompson, God’s Own Dwelling-Place : Oppo- sitions in the Ninth-Century Predestination Debate . 85-104 Michael I. Allen, Poems by Lupus, written by Heiric : An Endpaper for Édouard Jeauneau (Paris, BnF, lat. 7496, fol. 249v) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105-135 Section 2 : Cosmos and Physis : Eriugena’s Periphyseon in the Context of East and West Édouard Jeauneau, From Origen’s Periarchon to Eriugena’s Periphyseon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139-182 Ernesto Sergio Mainoldi, Creation in Wisdom : Eriugena’s Sophiology beyond Ontology and Meontology. . . . 183-222 Vincent Giraud, Being as Sign : Note on the Eriugenian Ontology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223-234 Donald F. Duclow, The Sleep of Adam, the Making of Eve : Sin and Creation in Eriugena . . . . . . . . 235-261 Adrian Guiu, “Reading the Two Books” : Exegesis and Natural Contemplation in the Periphyseon . . . . 263-290 VI table of contents Carlos Steel, Maximus Confessor and John Scottus Eriugena on Place and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 291-318 Section 3 : Eriugena’s PERIPHYSEON and Medieval Concepts of Creation Alfred K. Siewers, The Periphyseon, the Irish “Otherworld”, and Early Medieval Nature . . . . . . . . . 321-347 John Marenbon, Eriugena, Aristotelian Logic and the Cre- ation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349-368 Qaiser Shahzad, Being, God, and Creation in Eriugena and Ibn ‘Arabi : An Akbarian Reading of the Periphyseon 369-392 Agnieszka Kijewska, Eriugena and the Twelfth Century : The Concept of Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . 393-425 Daniel Yingst, Quae Omnia Concorditer Consonant : Eriugena’s Universe in the Thought of Honorius Augusto- dunensis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427-461 Bernard McGinn, Exegesis as Metaphysics : Eriugena and Eckhart on Reading Genesis 1-3 . . . . . . . 463-499 Section 4 : Eriugena’s PERIPHYSEON and Modern Reception Willemien Otten, Eriugena and Emerson on Nature and the Self . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 503-538 Adriaan T. Peperzak, Between John from Ireland and Hegel from Berlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539-557 Stephen Gersh, En-Countering Periphyseon : An Essay in Reading Heidegger and Eriugena . . . . . . . 559-599 Dermot Moran, Christian Neoplatonism and the Pheno- menological Tradition : The Hidden Influence of John Scottus Eriugena . . . . . . . . . . . . 601-636 Joke Schakenraad, The Rational Mysticism of John Scottus Eriugena and Ludwig Wittgenstein . . . . 637-655 Jean-Luc Marion, Veluti ex nihilo in aliquid. Remarks on Eriugena’s path from apophasis to diuina philosophia 657-679 table of contents VII Thomas Carlson, Theophany and the Chiaroscuro of Nature : Eriugena and the Question of Technology . . . . . 681-708 Bibliography of Eriugenian Studies, 2000-2014 . . . 709-734 Notes on Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . 735-741 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 743-759