[A little more table-setting] Eriugena is unusual for his time and place as a Westerner who deployed a working knowledge of Greek, and, more significantly, for his drawing upon one or more of the Greek Fathers (of Xtian theology) , and Pseudo-Fathers . His major work was entitled Periphyseon , also known by its name in Latin, De divisione naturae , or, in English, The division of nature .[1] It was written in Latin. The four divisions of nature (=everything) that John sees... read more