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Gottschalk of Orbais (Latin: Godescalc, Gotteschalchus; c. 808 – 30 October 868) was a Saxon theologian, monk and poet.Gottschalk was an early advocate for the doctrine of double predestination, an issue that ripped through both Italy and Francia from 848 into the 850s and 860s.
The two succeeding councils, held respectively in 849 and 853, dealt with Gottschalk and his peculiar teaching respecting predestination. The first of these meetings sentenced the recalcitrant monk to corporal castigation, deposition from the priestly office and imprisonment; his books were to be burned .
Saint Gottschalk or Godescalc (Latin: Godescalcus) (died 6 June 1066), a Prince of the Wends, a son of the Obotrite prince Udo, established a Slavic kingdom on Elbe in northeastern Germany briefly in the mid-eleventh century. His object in life seems to have been to collect the scattered tribes of the Slavs into one kingdom, and to make that ...
Gottschalk of Orbais taught double predestination explicitly in the ninth century, [37] and Gregory of Rimini in the fourteenth. [85] Some trace this doctrine to statements made by Augustine in the early fifth century that on their own also seem to teach double predestination, but in the context of his other writings it is not clear whether he ...
The eternal election of God, however, vel praedestinatio (or predestination), that is, God's ordination to salvation, does not extend at once over the godly and the wicked, but only over the children of God, who were elected and ordained to eternal life before the foundation of the world was laid, as Paul says, Eph. 1:4. 5: He hath chosen us in ...
Gottschalk remained "convinced that his ideas were orthodox," [26] and he persisted in his controversial doctrines. There was no definitive end to the predestination debate, and the Church maintained its position. Gottschalk raised a long-dormant theological question, but the 860 synod in Tusey merely reaffirmed the Church's initial position. [27]
Gottschalk or Godescalc (Old High German) is a male German name that can be translated literally as "servant of God". Latin forms include Godeschalcus and Godescalcus . Similarly, the Arabic equivalent of the name is Abdullah (عبد الله), which also translates to "servant of God," reflecting a shared linguistic and cultural concept of ...
Visio Godeschalci is a 12th-century text relating the vision of a peasant of Harrie, now Großharrie in Holstein, named Gottschalk.In December 1189, during the siege of Segeberg castle, Gottschalk fell ill, and during five days was presumed dead.