For ten points, name this 5th or 6th century thinker who attempted to reconcile Neo-Platonism with Christianity.
John Scotus Eriugena, also known as John the Irishman, translated this man's work into Latin. This man discussed the meaning of Psalm 78, where God is said to sleep and drink wine, and argued that symbols must be turned into metaphors if they are to be useful in theology in his Symbolic Theology, and he also wrote the arcane Mystical Theology. He described the nine ranks of angels and eight ranks of man in  On the Celestial Hierarchy and On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, and he discussed how different names for God represent different aspects of God in On the Divine Names. This man's most famous work discussed the two ways of differentiating the godhead – either as separate persons or separate attributes – and is called Theological Representations. This man claimed to have seen the dormitioning body of the Virgin Mary and witnessed the solar eclipse at Christ's Crucifixion to back up his claim of being an Athenian judge converted by St. Paul, though he actually lived hundreds of years later. For ten points, name this 5th or 6th century thinker who attempted to reconcile Neo-Platonism with Christianity.
John Scotus Eriugena, also known as John the Irishman, translated this man's work into Latin.
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