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Thinking Nature and the Nature of Thinking This page intentionally left blank Cultural Memory in the Present Hent de Vries, Editor This page intentionally left blank THINKING NATURE AND THE NATURE OF THINKING From Eriugena to Emerson Willemien Otten Stanford University Press Stanford, California Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2020 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Otten, Willemien, author. Title: Thinking nature and the nature of thinking : from Eriugena to Emerson / Willemien Otten. Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019028970 (print) | LCCN 2019028971 (ebook) | ISBN 9781503606708 (cloth) | ISBN 9781503611672 (paperback) | ISBN 9781503611689 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Philosophy of nature. | Nature—Religious aspects. | Erigena, Johannes Scotus, approximately 810-approximately 877. | Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803–1882. | Natural theology. Classification: LCC BD581 .O76 2020 (print) | LCC BD581 (ebook) | DDC 113—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019028970 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019028971 Cover image: Kim Lim, from Three Small Etchings, “Untitled,” 1971. © Estate of Kim Lim. All Rights Reserved, DACS, London / ARS, NY 2019; Photo: © Tate, London 2019 Cover design: Rob Ehle Typeset by Kevin Barrett Kane in 11/13.5 Adobe Garamond Pro For Dick This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction Thinking Nature . . . (and the Nature of Thinking) 1 PART 1 Chapter 1 Thinking Nature in Eriugena and Emerson 13 Thinking Nature, 13 • Eriugena and Emerson, 20 • Emerson on Thinking Nature, 23 • Preaching, 23 • The Sabbath or Jubilee of the Whole World, 30 • Eriugena on Nature and the Self, 34 • Mystic or Idealist, 40 • Connecting Eriugena and Emerson on Thinking Nature, 44 Chapter 2 Panchristology and the Liturgical Cosmos of Maximus the Confessor 49 Introduction, 49 • Maximus’s Cosmic Liturgy, 52 • Maximus and His Liturgical Interpreters, 52 • The Liturgical Cosmology of Ambiguum 41, 56 • Two Cosmic Points on the Liturgical Circle, 63 • The Fatness of the Incarnate Christ, 64 • The Balance of Nature and Scripture, 66 • Nature as Mystagogy: Cosmic Return and the Anthropological Task, 70 • Conclusion, 76 Chapter 3 Creation and the Hexaemeron in Augustine 79 Introduction, 79 • Scripture’s Mediation, 84 • From Platonic Cosmology to Literal Exegesis, 89 • Creation and Conversion 1, 94 • Time in or outside Paradise, 98 • Creation and Conversion 2, 102 • Vision and Voice, 105
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