Abstract
The traditional Christian version of the world's beginning was frequently asserted, but the question was not argued, nor was there any attempt to reconcile Genesis with the philosophers. When the question was revived by John Scotus Eriugena in the mid-ninth century, it was considered in a form quite different from the one it had taken among the Latin Fathers. Even Hugh of St. Victor's use of his doctrine was usually overlooked by later thinkers, who seized upon different aspects of Hugh's teaching to cite in discussions of the eternity of the world. Ironically, it was the definition of the perpetual as having a beginning but not an end, transmitted but probably not devised by the anonymous commentator on De consolatione, which was to be the most lasting and influential of the legacies of Eriugena and his followers.Keywords: De consolatione; Eriugena; Hugh; Latin Fathers
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