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Mystical Interpretation of the Exile and Return to Paradise in Eriugena's Periphyseon

Author(s): Agnieszka Kijewska
Source: Roczniki Filozoficzne / Annales de Philosophie / Annals of Philosophy, Vol. 63, No.
2 (2015), pp. 13-26
Published by: John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Philosophy and the
Learned Society of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
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Accessed: 17-03-2017 16:24 UTC

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