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RADBERTUS PASCHASIUS (d. c. 86o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 783 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RADBERTUS PASCHASIUS (d. c. 86o)  , See also:

French theologian, was See also:born at or near See also:Soissons towards the See also:close of the 8th See also:century . He became a See also:monk of See also:Corbie, near See also:Amiens in See also:Picardy, in 814, and assumed the See also:cloister name of Paschasius . He soon gained recognition as a learned and successful teacher, and the younger Adalhard, St Anskar the apostle of See also:Sweden, See also:Odo See also:bishop of See also:Beauvais and Warinus See also:abbot of Corvei iii See also:Saxony may be mentioned among the more distinguished of his pupils . Between 842 and 846 he was chosen abbot, but as a disciplinarian he was more energetic than successful, and about 851 he resigned the See also:office . He never took priestly orders . He died and was buried in Corbie . Radbertus is one of the most important theologians in the See also:history of the See also:church . " He was perhaps the most learned and able theologian after See also:Alcuin, as well versed in See also:Greek See also:theology as he was See also:familiar with Augustinianism, a compre, hensive See also:genius, who See also:felt the liveliest See also:desire to harmonize theory and practice, and at the same See also:time give due See also:weight to tradition " (See also:Harnack) . His See also:great See also:work was the See also:Liber de Corpore el Sanguine Domini (first ed . 831; new ed., with an See also:epistle to See also:Charles the Bald, 844), which was not only the first systematic and thorough See also:treatise on the See also:sacrament of the See also:eucharist, but is the first clear dogmatic statement of See also:transubstantiation, and as such opened an unending controversy . It was at once attacked by See also:Ratramnus and Hrabanus Maurus, but was so completely in See also:touch with the practice of the church and the spirit of the See also:age, as to win the See also:verdict of See also:Catholic orlodoxy . On the eucharistic controversy see the See also:article on Radbertus by Steitz in See also:Herzog-Hauck's Real-Encyklopadie; See also:Bach, Dogmenge• schichte See also:des Mittelalters, i .

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Ernst, See also:Die Lehre des h . Paschasius Radbertus v. d . Eucharistie (1896); Renz, Die Geschichte des Messopferbegriffs (1901); K . G . See also:Goetz, Die Abendmahlsfrage in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung (1904), a See also:complete survey of the whole problem, beginning with Radbertus . A . Harnack's treatment in his History of See also:Dogma (vol. v., p . 308 ff.) is clear and appreciative .

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