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GOTTSCHALK [GODESCALUS (c. 808-867?)  , See also:German theologian, was See also:born near See also:Mainz, and was devoted (oblatus) from See also:infancy by his parents, his See also:father was a Saxon, See also:Count See also:Bern,—to the monastic See also:life . He was trained at the monastery of See also:Fulda, then under the See also:abbot Hrabanus Maurus, and became the friend of Walafrid See also:Strabo and Loup of Ferrieres . In See also:June 829, at the See also:synod of Mainz, on the pretext that he had been unduly constrained by his abbot, he sought and obtained his See also:liberty, withdrew first to See also:Corbie; where he met See also:Ratramnus, and then to the monastery of Orbais in the See also:diocese of See also:Soissons . There he studied St See also:Augustine, with the result that he became an enthusiastic believer in the See also:doctrine of See also:absolute See also:predestination, in one point going beyond his See also:masterSee also:Gottschalk believing in a predestination to condemnation as well as in a predestination to salvation, while Augustine had contented himself with the doctrine of preterition as complementary to the doctrine of See also:election . Between 835 and 84o Gottschalk was ordained See also:priest, without the knowledge of his See also:bishop, by Rigbold, chorepiscopus of See also:Reims . Before 84o, deserting his monastery, he went to See also:Italy, preached there his doctrine of See also:double predestination, and entered into relations with Notting, bishop of See also:Verona, and See also:Eberhard, count of See also:Friuli . Driven from Italy through the See also:influence of Hrabanus Maurus, now See also:archbishop of Mainz, who wrote two violent letters to Notting and Eberhard, he travelled through See also:Dalmatia, See also:Pannonia and Norica, but continued See also:preaching and See also:writing . In See also:October 848 he presented to the synod at Mainz a profession of faith and a refutation of the ideas expressed by Hrabanus Maurus in his See also:letter to Notting . He was convicted, however, of See also:heresy, beaten, obliged to swear that he would never again enter the territory of See also:Louis the German, and handed over to See also:Hincmar, archbishop of Reims, who sent him back to his monastery at Orbais . The next See also:year at a provincial See also:council at See also:Quierzy, presided over by See also:Charles the Bald, he attempted to justify his ideas, but was again condemned as a heretic and disturber of the public See also:peace, was degraded from the priesthood, whipped, obliged to See also:burn his See also:declaration of faith, and shut up in the monastery of Hautvilliers . There Hincmar tried again to induce him to retract . Gottschalk however continued to defend his doctrine, writing to his See also:friends and to the most eminent theologians of See also:France and See also:Germany .

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great controversy resulted . See also:Prudentius, bishop of See also:Troyes, Wenilo of See also:Sens, Ratramnus of Corbie, Loup of Ferrieres and See also:Florus of See also:Lyons wrote in his favour . Hincmar wrote De praedestinatione and De una non trina deitate against his views, but gained little aid from Johannes Scotus.See also:Erigena, whom he had called in as an authority . The question was discussed at the See also:councils of Kiersy (853), of See also:Valence (855) and of Savonnieres (859) . Finally the See also:pope See also:Nicolas I. took up the See also:case, and summoned Hincmar to the council of See also:Metz (863) . Hincmar either could not or would not appear, but declared that Gottschalk might go to defend himself before the pope . Nothing came of this, however, and when Hincmar learned that Gottschalk had fallen See also:ill, he forbade him the sacraments or See also:burial in consecrated ground unless he would recant . This Gottschalk refused to do . He died on the 30th of October between 866 and 87o . Gottschalk was a vigorous and See also:original thinker, but also of a violent temperament, incapable of discipline or moderation in his ideas as in his conduct . He was less an innovator than a reactionary . Of his many See also:works we have only the two professions of faith (cf .

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Migne, PalrologiaLatina, cxxi. c . 347 et seq.), and some poems, edited by L . Traube in Monumenta Germaniae historica: Poetae See also:Latini aevi Carolini (t . 707-738) . Some fragments of his theological See also:treatises have been preserved in the writings of Hincmar, Erigena, Ratramnus and Loup of Ferrieres . From the 17th See also:century, when the Jansenists exalted Gottschalk, much has been written on him . Mention may be made of two See also:recent studies, F . Picavet, " See also:Les Discussions sur la libert6 au temps See also:GOTTSCHED 279 de Gottschalk, de Raban Maur, d'Hincmar, et de See also:Jean See also:Scot," in Comptes rendus de l'acad. See also:des sciences morales et politiques (See also:Paris, 1896) ; and A . Freystedt, " Studien zu Gottschalks Leben and Lehre," in Zeitschrift See also:fur Kirchengeschichie (1897), vol. xviii .

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