Bibliography
Ernesto Sergio
Mainoldi
Works authored
comments: Critical edition, with introduction, translation (into Italian) and lexical index.
Contributions to edited collections or authored works
Mainoldi, Ernesto Sergio, “Creation in wisdom: Eriugena’s sophiology beyond ontology and meontology”, 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. 183–222.
abstract:
The aim of this paper is to follow the Eriugenian pathways of thought in one of his most topical arguments: the creation of everything in the Word. Moving from the fourfold division of nature, set at the beginning of Periphyseon, two main problems are identified: the non-creativeness of God, and the creativeness of the primordial causes. An attempt to reconstruct the play of ontology and meontology underlying these themes is made, in search of what the Irish master means when speaking of God’s self-creation in everything and God’s identity with Creation. Eriugena uses the Wisdom argument to overcome the aporias that lead rational thought, which follows the rules of dialectics, to its limits. Moving from scientia to sapientia, the intellect passes from a divisive knowledge to a unitive one, and by this step a harmonisation of the four divisions of nature with the division between things-that-are and things-that-are-not is understood in a unitary frame.
abstract:
The aim of this paper is to follow the Eriugenian pathways of thought in one of his most topical arguments: the creation of everything in the Word. Moving from the fourfold division of nature, set at the beginning of Periphyseon, two main problems are identified: the non-creativeness of God, and the creativeness of the primordial causes. An attempt to reconstruct the play of ontology and meontology underlying these themes is made, in search of what the Irish master means when speaking of God’s self-creation in everything and God’s identity with Creation. Eriugena uses the Wisdom argument to overcome the aporias that lead rational thought, which follows the rules of dialectics, to its limits. Moving from scientia to sapientia, the intellect passes from a divisive knowledge to a unitive one, and by this step a harmonisation of the four divisions of nature with the division between things-that-are and things-that-are-not is understood in a unitary frame.
Mainoldi, Ernesto Sergio, “Su alcune fonti ispiratrici della teologia e dell’escatologia del De divina praedestinatione liber di Giovanni Scoto Eriugena”, 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. 313–329.
