/lit/ - Literature

>>21444046
>>21444006
Eriugena explains why, but it's a straight forward consequence of God's essence being beyond all conceptual determinations. God's essence can not be the subject of any predicate, only God's effects, i.e. his powers and creations, can be the subject of predicates.

>>20366346
Very naive. Pagan Platonism was stagnant and have no concept of development through time, the Jewish concept of creation of the universe at a beginning point, as opposed to the Pagan eternal emanation of a steady state universe, forced Christian (and to a leser extant Islamic) Platonists to engage with a philosophy of change and time, reaching a high point with Eriguena's dialectics.