About the Holy Spirit and the Relationship with the Human Person in John Scottus Eriugena

Abstract

John Scottus Eriugena, in his major work the Periphyseon, reflects on the importance of the inclusive relationship between the Creator and Creation through the mediation of the Holy Spirit who “runs”, that is what the holy spirit connects. In a neoplatonizing Christian reading under the influence of Ps.-Dionysius, he analyses in his dialogue the fundamental importance of the human soul and intellectual knowledge for the return of the multiple to Unity. Man as a person contains the various essential features of Creation, making possible from the perspective of the created world the universal return of All into One.