God’s Own Dwelling Place : Oppositions in the Ninth-Century Predestination Debate
Jeremy C. Thompson
The unity of nature as a theme in Eriugena’s De diuina praedestinatione has been acknowledged. This essay contrasts it with the idea assumed, adopted or advanced by other disputants ninth-century predestination debate. It begins from fundamental Augustinian anthropology distinguishing will (uelle) and ability (posse) to sin. Hincmar Reims Lupus Ferrières offered opposing perspectives on this analysis. Eriugena presented an altogether different configuration same elements makes human important source continuity between prelapsarian fallen humanity. question what kind was lost at fall recurred throughout debate raised problems language metaphor Carolingian theology. offer sliding scale interposing points God Whereas most accepted stratified model for its capacity accommodate moral tropology, collapses : cannot be separated God, nor humanity nature. Throughout works, there are explicit binaries traditional mold, like natura gratia, that may inferred, Florus’s peccatrix versus creatrix, give shape these contrasting models. In end, implicit assimilation stands dramatically against Gottschalk Orbais’s more less identification grace.
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