Mar 2, 2021
Every visible and invisible creature is a theophany or appearance of God.
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Every visible and invisible creature is a theophany or appearance of God.
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We do not know what God is. God Himself does not know what He is because He is not anything. Literally God is not, because He transcends being.
- John Scotus Erigena
The Advantages of Knowing Obscure Languages
"Erigena [815-877], who understood Greek, attempted to construct a new synthesis of Neoplatonism and Christianity. The Platonic element predominated so much that the work veered off into heresy at many points, but, fortunately for Erigena, none of his contemporaries could understand his arguments and the church did not get around to condemning his work for another four centuries."
- Brian Tierney, Western Europe in the Middle Ages: 300-1474, 6th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 1999), 143.