In 849 Gottschalk of Orbais was condemned and imprisoned for his
teaching of double predestination, and forced to burn his writings and
live for 20 years under confinement in the Abbey of Hautvillers.
Gottschalk professed the orthodoxy of his position until his death, and
continuously protested that his was the true teaching of St. Augustine
of Hippo. Recent discovery of his works by Germain Morin and Cyril
Lambot in the mid-twentieth century, along with a number of recent
translations and analyses of his texts by Francis Gumerlock and Victor
Genke, have brought the light of modern scholarship on his teaching.
This revisiting of Gottschalk's predestination doctrine has caused many
to see his teaching as more orthodox than heretical and one that
effectively countered the semi-Pelagian and Origenistic tendencies of
his own day. This short communication will examine those tendencies and
contrast them with the strict Augustinianism of Gottschalk who wrote
against them.
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