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The Medieval Church · 851

On Divine Predestination

John Scotus Eriugena · c. 815–c. 877

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What it is

Commissioned to refute Gottschalk, he argues that since God is simple and outside time there can be no double anything in him, and that evil has no substance to be predestined.

Why it lasted

So philosophically radical that it was condemned along with the position it was written to attack, leaving its author's orthodoxy suspect ever after.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

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