Frank | October 13, 2009
In the mid-ninth century, a wandering monk named Gottschalk of Orbais (d. 868) sparked a controversy over divine predestination that shook both church and state in central Europe. But was Gottschalk the maverick that he is often made out to be? What did the church teach about grace and divine predestination in the [...]
Frank | August 24, 2009
Fulgentius was born in the year 468 and educated in Vandal North Africa. After a short career in finance he joined a monastery. He later was elevated to an abbot and in the year 508 became bishop of Ruspe, a coastal town in modern Tunisia.
Fulgentius defended the doctrine of the Trinity [...]
Frank | June 23, 2009
Since 2004, Victor Genke and I have been translating the works of Gottschalk of Orbais, a ninth-century Benedictine monk who was imprisoned by the Church for his allegedly heretical views on predestination.
Genke lives in Russia, works as an overseer of a team of translators there, and is finishing up his doctoral thesis on [...]
