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The Medieval Church · c. 862–867

On the Division of Nature

Periphyseon

John Scotus Eriugena · c. 815–c. 877

What it is

A dialogue dividing all reality into four kinds of nature and following creation out from God and back into him, drawing on Greek fathers almost nobody in the West could read.

Why it lasted

The most ambitious philosophical work between Augustine and Anselm, condemned in the thirteenth century and a permanent underground current in Western thought.

Where to read it

This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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