Ilaria L.E. Ramelli: “From God to God: Eriugena’s Protology and Eschatology against the Backdrop of His Patristic Sources”

I shall explore Eriugena’s notion of apokatastasis ('restoration, reintegration' as the return to God and the heritage of Origen and Gregory of Nyssa (and Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor) in this respect. I shall investigate the reception of ‘pagan’ and Christian Platonic theories of apokatastasis (and its link to epistrophē) and their relation to protology in the identification of the primordial state with the Divinity itself: primordialis conditio: ipse Deus.
This investigation will relate the two main sections of this symposium: that on God, to which it belongs, and that on cosmology and anthropology, since it will focus on the notion of the return of creation (particularly on rational creatures, but also all of creation) to God and on protology, within the three Neoplatonic movements of monē, proodos, and epistrophē.