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Otten, Willemien, “Eriugena as the last patristic cosmologist”, in: Markus Vinzent (ed.), Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019, vol. 19: Eriugena's Christian neoplatonism and its sources in patristic and ancient philosophy, 122, Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2021. 127–142.
Otten, Willemien, Thinking nature and the nature of thinking: from Eriugena to Emerson, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020.  
abstract:

A fresh and more capacious reading of the Western religious tradition on nature and creation, Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking puts medieval Irish theologian John Scottus Eriugena (810–877) into conversation with American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882). Challenging the biblical stewardship model of nature and histories of nature and religion that pit orthodoxy against the heresy of pantheism, Willemien Otten reveals a line of thought that has long made room for nature's agency as the coworker of God. Embracing in this more elusive idea of nature in a world beset by environmental crisis, she suggests, will allow us to see nature not as a victim but as an ally in a common quest for re-attunement to the divine. Putting its protagonists into further dialogue with such classic authors as Augustine, Maximus the Confessor, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and William James, her study deconstructs the idea of pantheism and paves the way for a new natural theology.

Otten, Willemien, “Suspended between cosmology and anthropology: natura’s bond in Eriugena’s Periphyseon”, in: Adrian Guiu (ed.), A companion to John Scottus Eriugena, 86, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019. 189–212.
Otten, Willemien, “The fate of Augustine's Genesis exegesis in medieval hexaemeral commentaries: the cases of John Scottus Eriugena and Robert Grosseteste”, Studia patristica 98 (2017): 51–70.
Otten, Willemien, “Eriugena on natures (created, human and divine)”, in: Isabelle Moulin (ed.), Philosophie et théologie chez Jean Scot Érigène, Paris: VRIN, 2016. 113–133.
Otten, Willemien, “Eriugena and Emerson on nature and the self”, in: Willemien Otten, and Michael I. Allen (eds), Eriugena and Creation: proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Eriugenian Studies, held in honor of Edouard Jeauneau, Chicago, 9–12 November 2011, Turnhout: Brepols, 2014. 503–538.  
abstract:
In this article I try to gain deeper insight into Eriugena’s mysteriously attractive concept of nature as developed in the Periphyseon. The article attempts to gain this deeper insight by performing a series of steps. In the first of these I see anthropology and physiology as inseparably connected in the Periphyseon but refuse to see their integration as representing a case of premodern idealism. In search of both a modern parallel for and an alternative explanation of Eriugena’s integration of nature and self I turn to R.W. Emerson’s Nature and his discussion, followed by a dismissal, of idealism, as for Emerson nature only comes into itself at the command of spirit. Seeing an analogous evasive playfulness undergirding both Emerson’s circular thinking and Eriugena’s prolixity, serving in each case the goal of protrepsis, I develop in the third part of the article a new reading of Eriugena’s natura. This new reading casts the role of the Periphyseon as that of the first western natural theology, a theology that Augustine could have developed based on his theory of signs but never actually did. Whereas Augustine is the first master of self-analysis and introspection in the history of western thought, it is fitting to see Eriugena as the first master not just of natural theology but of the eloquentia rerum, as in the end nature for him is not just about conversation, but is itself conversation with the divine.
Otten, Willemien, and Michael I. Allen (eds), Eriugena and Creation: proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Eriugenian Studies, held in honor of Edouard Jeauneau, Chicago, 9–12 November 2011, Turnhout: Brepols, 2014.  
abstract:
Unjustly ignored as a result of a thirteenth-century condemnation, the thought of Johannes Scottus Eriugena (ca. 810-877) has only been subject to critical study in the twentieth century. Now, with the completion of the critical edition of Eriugena’s masterwork - the Periphyseon - the time has come to explore what is arguably the most intriguing and vital theme in his work: creation and nature. In honor of Edouard Jeauneau - Institute Professor at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Toronto and Honorary Research Director at the C.N.R.S. in Paris - to whom the field of Eriugenian studies is enormously indebted, this volume seeks to undertake a serious examination of the centrality of Eriugena’s thought within the Carolingian context, taking into account his Irish heritage, his absorption of Greek thought and his place in Carolingian culture; of Eriugena as a medieval thinker, both his intellectual influences and his impact on later medieval thinkers; and of Eriugena’s reception by modern philosophy, from considerations of philosophical idealism to technology.
comments: Includes a bibliography of Eriugenian Studies, 2000–2014
Otten, Willemien, “Le langage de l’union mystique: le désir et le corps dans l’oeuvre de Jean Scot Érigène et de Maître Eckhart”, Les études philosophiques 104 — Érigène (2013): 121–141.  
abstract:
L’article propose une analyse comparative de la pensée mystique de Jean Scot Érigène (810-877) et de Maître Eckhart (1260-1328). Nuançant les critiques contemporaines relatives au rôle joué par l’expérience dans le mysticisme médiéval, il défend la position selon laquelle il est préférable d’instaurer une comparaison sémantique détaillée de la pensée de ces deux auteurs plutôt que de diviser le mysticisme médiéval en fonction de l’influence mystique augustinienne ou dionysienne décelable chez chacun d’entre eux. L’auteure mène une telle analyse en se reposant sur l’utilisation du concept d’incarnation comme principe sémantique fécond et non comme doctrine théologique. Tandis qu’Érigène utilise ce concept pour engager la conversation avec le divin (utilisation « horizontale »), Eckhart s’en sert pour donner naissance à une vision mystique plus incisive (utilisation « verticale »). Nuançant également l’idée selon laquelle l’apophase est une caractéristique commune de la tradition néoplatonicienne médiévale, l’auteure montre qu’Érigène et Eckhart utilisent l’apophase pour obtenir des effets fort différents. Guidés par leur désir de percer tout mécanisme de la contemplation mystique sans pour autant discréditer l’expérience en tant que telle, Érigène et Eckhart ne conçoivent pas l’apophase en contradiction avec la corporalité, mais l’utilisent pour affirmer l’ordre sous-jacent et le caractère commun de la nature et de la vie.
Otten, Willemien, “Creation and epiphanic incarnation. Reflections on the future of natural theology from an Eriugenian-Emersonian perspective”, in: Babette Hellemans, Willemien Otten, and Burcht Pranger (eds), On religion and memory, New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. 64–88.
Hellemans, Babette, Willemien Otten, and Burcht Pranger (eds), On religion and memory, New York: Fordham University Press, 2013.  
abstract:
This volume takes up the challenge implied in Augustine’s paradox of time: how does one account for the continuity of history and the certitude of memory, if time, in the guise of an indivisible ‘now,’ cuts off any extension of the present? The thinkers and artists the essays address include Augustine, Abelard, Eriugena and Thoreau, Calvin, Shakespeare, De Rancé, Stravinsky and Messiaen, Rubens and Woolf.
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Otten, Willemien, “Overshadowing or foreshadowing return: the role of demons in Eriugena’s Periphyseon”, in: N. M. Vos, and Willemien Otten (eds), Demons and the Devil in ancient and medieval Christianity, Leiden: Brill, 2011. 211–229.
Vos, N. M., and Willemien Otten (eds), Demons and the Devil in ancient and medieval Christianity, Leiden: Brill, 2011.
Otten, Willemien, “Does the canon need converting? A meditation on Augustine’s Soliloquies, Eriugena’s Periphyseon, and the dialogue with the religious past”, in: Willemien Otten, Arjo Vanderjagt, and Hent de Vries (eds), How the West was won. Essays on literary imagination, the canon, and the Christian Middle Ages for Burcht Pranger, Leiden: Brill, 2010. 195–223.
Otten, Willemien, Arjo Vanderjagt, and Hent de Vries (eds), How the West was won. Essays on literary imagination, the canon, and the Christian Middle Ages for Burcht Pranger, Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Treschow, M., Willemien Otten, and W. Hannam (eds), Divine creation in ancient, medieval, and early modern thought. Essays presented to the Rev. Dr. Robert D. Crouse, Leiden: Brill, 2007.
Otten, Willemien, “Nature, body and text in early medieval theology: from Eriugena to Chartres”, in: M. Treschow, Willemien Otten, and W. Hannam (eds), Divine creation in ancient, medieval, and early modern thought. Essays presented to the Rev. Dr. Robert D. Crouse, Leiden: Brill, 2007. 235–256.
Otten, Willemien, “Eriugena, Emerson, and the poetics of universal nature”, in: R. Berchman, and J. Finamore (eds), Metaphysical patterns in Platonism: ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and modern times, New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2007. 147–163.
Otten, Willemien, “Anthropology between imago mundi and imago Dei: the place of Johannes Scottus Eriugena in the tradition of Christian thought”, in: F. Young, M. Edwards, and P. Parvis (eds), Augustine, other Latin writers. Papers presented at the Fourteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2003, 43, Leuven: Peeters, 2006. 459–472.
Otten, Willemien, “The pedagogical aspect of Eriugena’s eschatology: Paradise between the letter and the spirit”, in: J. McEvoy, and M. Dunne (eds), History and eschatology in John Scottus Eriugena and his time. Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference of the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies, Maynooth and Dublin, August 16–20, 2000, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2002. 509–526.
Otten, Willemien, “Realized eschatology or philosophical idealism: the case of Eriugena’s Periphyseon”, in: J. A. Aertsen, and M. Pickavé (eds), Ende und Vollendung: eschatologische Perspektiven im Mittelalter, New York, Cologne: De Gruyter, 2001. 373–387.
Otten, Willemien, “The parallelism of nature and scripture: reflections on Eriugena’s incarnational exegesis”, in: Gerd van Riel, Carlos Steel, and James J. McEvoy (eds), Johannes Scottus Eriugena. The Bible and hermeneutics. Proceedings of the Ninth International Colloquium of the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies held at Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve, June 7–10, 1995, 1.20, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1996. 81–102.
Otten, Willemien, “Eriugena’s Periphyseon: a Carolingian contribution to the theological tradition”, in: Bernard McGinn, and Willemien Otten (eds), Eriugena: east and west. Papers of the Eighth International Symposium of the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies, Chicago and Notre Dame, 18–20 October, 1991, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994. 69–93.
McGinn, Bernard, and Willemien Otten (eds), Eriugena: east and west. Papers of the Eighth International Symposium of the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies, Chicago and Notre Dame, 18–20 October, 1991, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994.
Otten, Willemien, “Eriugena and the concept of eastern versus western patristic influence”, in: E. A. Livingstone (ed.), Other Latin authors, Nachleben of the Fathers, Index Patrum. Papers presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1991, 28, Louvain: Peeters, 1993. 217–224.
Otten, Willemien, “Between damnation and redemption: the dynamics of human nature in Eriugena’s Periphyseon and Alan of Lille’s Anticlaudianus”, in: Haijo Jan Westra (ed.), From Athens to Chartres: neoplatonism and medieval thought. Studies in honour of Édouard Jeauneau, 35, Leiden: Brill, 1992. 329–349.
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