A Text Book of the History of Doctrines (Volume 2) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FIFTH DIVISION. THE ORDO 8ALUTI8. 183. PREDESTINATION. (The Controversy of Gottschalk.) L., Historia Gotteschalci. Par. 1655, Staudenmaier, Scotua Erigena, p. 170, as. G/rorer, on Pseudo-Isidore in the Tbingen TheoL Zeitschrift, xviii. 274, 5. Wggers, Schicksale d. Augustinischen Anthropologie, in Niedner's Zeitschrift hist Theol., 1857-8. [ Weizscker, Das Dogma von der gttlichen Vorherbestimmung im neunten Jahr, in Jahrb. f. deutsche TheoL, 1859. Archb. Ussher, Gottschalcus et Pr?dest. Controvers. ab eo mota, Dublin, 1631, and in ssher's Works, 16 vols., Dublin, 1837-40. The Predestination Controversy in the Ninth Century, Princeton Review, 1840. F. Mmnier, De Gottschalci et Joan. Scoti Erigenaa Controversia, Paris, 1853.] Great as was the authority of Augustine in the West, the prevailing notions concerning the doctrine of Predestination contained more or less of the Semipelagian element.1 Accordingly, when in the course of the ninth century Gottschalk, a monk in the Franciscan monastery of Orbais, ventured to revive the rigid Augustinian doctrine, and even went so far as to assert a twofold predestination, not only to salvation but also to damnation, ' he exposed himself to persecution. He was in the first instance, opposed by Rabanua - rus' and afterwards condemned by the Synods of Mayenco (a. D. 848), and of Quiercy (Cressy, Carisiacum, A. D. 849).' Hincmar, Archbishop of Eheims, took part in the transactions of the latter Synod. Though Prudentius of Troyes' Ratramn' Servatus Lupus,1 and several others, pronounced in favor of Gottschalk, though under certain modifications, John Scotus Erigena, by an ingenious argumentation contrived to preserve the appearance of Augustinian orthodoxy, by mmintaining, on the basis of the position borrowed from Augus...