De divisione naturae

…and his own major work, De divisione naturae (862–866; On the Division of Nature), is a vast synthesis of Christian thought organized along Neoplatonic lines. For Scotus, God is the primal unity, unknowable and unnameable in himself, from which the multiplicity of creatures flows. He so far transcends his creatures…

…and his own major work, De divisione naturae (862–866; On the Division of Nature), is a vast synthesis of Christian thought organized along Neoplatonic lines. For Scotus, God is the primal unity, unknowable and unnameable in himself, from which the multiplicity of creatures flows. He so far transcends his creatures…

…and gone, Erigena, in his De divisione natura (On the Division of Nature), developed the Dionysian Neoplatonism on his own and tried to construct a systematic conception of the universe, a more or less pantheistic worldview, which (as Étienne Gilson says) for a moment offered the Latin West the opportunity—or…