Editing Ratramnus (section)

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'''Ratramnus''' (died {{c.|868|lk=no}})<ref>[https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=nid%3D118787926 Ratramnus, Corbiensis] Deutsche Nationalbibliothek</ref> was a [[Franks|Frankish]] monk of the [[Corbie Abbey|monastery of Corbie]], near [[Amiens]] in northern France, and a [[Carolingian]] theologian known best for his writings on the [[Eucharist]] and [[predestination]]. His [[Eucharistic]] treatise ''De corpore et sanguine Domini'' (''On the Body and Blood of the Lord'') was a counterpoint to his abbot [[Paschasius Radbertus]]’s realist Eucharistic theology. Ratramnus was also known for his defense of the monk [[Gottschalk of Orbais|Gottschalk]], whose theology of [[double predestination]] was the center of much controversy in 9th-century [[France]] and [[Germany]]. In his own time, Ratramnus was perhaps best known for his ''Against the Objections of the Greeks who Slandered the Roman Church'', a response to the [[Photian schism]] and defense of the [[filioque]] addition to the [[Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed]].<ref>G.E. McCracken, ed. ''Early Medieval Theology'', Library of Christian Classics 9 (Louisville: KY, 1957), pp. 109-47, here 109.</ref> The writings of Ratramnus influenced the [[Reformation|Protestant reformation]] of the 16th century.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ratramnus {{!}} Benedictine theologian {{!}} Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ratramnus|access-date=2021-11-21|website=www.britannica.com|language=en}}</ref>