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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1577 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

801–900

The Ninth Century

1 work

c. 862–867

Latin

On the Division of Nature

Periphyseon

John Scotus Eriugena · c. 815–c. 877

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.

Western · Philosophy