Editing Ratramnus (section)

==Predestination==
In the 840s and 50s, Ratramnus became involved in the controversy over the teachings of [[Gottschalk of Orbais]] (ca. 803-68). Ratramnus probably first encountered Gottschalk during the wandering teacher’s stay at the monastery of Corbie around 830, and later supported him in his conflict with archbishop [[Hincmar of Rheims]].<ref>Ginther, ''Westminster Handbook to Medieval Theology'', 75.</ref> Gottschalk taught a form of [[double predestination]], teaching that God predestined the fates of both the elect and the damned.

In 851, [[John Scotus Eriugena]] was commissioned to oppose Gottschalk’s teaching, but his work, ''Treatise on Divine Predestination'', essentially denied any form of [[predestination]] whatsoever, a denial which raised the ire of Ratramnus and [[Florus of Lyon]].<ref>Ginther, Westminster Handbook to Medieval Theology, 153.</ref> In response, Ratramnus composed the two-book work ''On the Predestination of God'' (''De Praedestinatione Dei''),<ref>J.P. Migne, ed. ''Patrologia Latina'' 121:11-80</ref> in which he defended double predestination, while objecting to the relation of predestination to sin.<ref>McCracken, ''Early Medieval Theology'', 109.</ref>