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From the Circle of Alcuin to the School of Auxerre Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2009
I quote the shorter extracts in full; for longer passages, I give the opening and closing words and indicate, in brackets, the contents of the passage. References are to the pages and lines of Sheldon-Williams's edition of the Periphyseon, Book 1. I have provided a more detailed summary and discussion of this material in ‘A Florilegium from the “Periphyseon”’, Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale, 47, 1980, pp. 271–7.
I. (f.45ra) Ipse namque essentia est omnium qui solus uere est; ut ait Dyonisius Ariopagita: esse, inquit, omnium est superesse diunitatis. (38:25–7)
II. Angelus est essentialis motus intellectualis circa Dominum rerumque causas. (40:32–3)
III. Qui uocat ea quae non sunt tamquam ea quae sunt. Hoc est, eos qui in primo homine perditi sunt et ad quandam insubsistentiam ceciderunt, Deus Pater, per fidem in Filium suum uocat, ut sint sicuti hi qui iam in Christo renati sunt. (44:18–21)
IV. Teophania: incomprehensibilis intellectualis naturae quaedam diuina apparitio. (cf. 46:17–18)
Deus ANARXOS … (f.45rb) … stabilitatem quaerentia. (God as the beginning, middle and end of all things) (58:22–9)
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