ABSTRACT
John Scottus Eriugena is one of the most interesting figures in early medieval Western theology, in part due to the broad range of his interests and the translation and incorporation of various Eastern authors into his own theology. In this essay, Mainoldi traces several of these Greek influences on Eriugena’s doctrine of deification: Gregory of Nyssa, Maximus the Confessor and Pseudo-Dionysius. It is thanks to Eriugena that Eastern conceptions of deification were transmitted in the Western tradition, for he not only translated their texts, but integrated many of their insights into his own theological synthesis in the Periphyseon.
