Treatise on Divine Predestination (Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture)

✍ Scribed by John Scottus Eriugena

• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 165
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Treatise on Divine Predestination is one of the early writings of the author of the great philosophical work Periphyseon (On the Division of Nature), Johannes Scottus (the Irishman), known as Eriugena (died c. 877 A.D.). It contributes to the age-old debate on the question of human destiny in the present world and in the afterlife.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half title
Series Page
Treatise on Divine Predestination
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Introduction to the English Translation
Preface
1. That Every Question Is Solved by the Fourfold System of the Four Rules of the Whole of Philosophy
2. From the Argument of Necessity It Is Concluded That There Cannot Be Two Predestinations
3. Reason Does Not Permit of Two Predestinations
4. One, True and Only Predestination of God
5. No One Is Compelled to Do Good or to Do Evil by the Foreknowledge and Predestination of God
6. Every Sin Has No Other Source Than the Free Choice of the Individual Will
7. Free Choice of the Will Should Be Reckoned among the Good Things That God Bestows on Man, although He May Misuse It. What Is It That Causes Sin and Is Sin?
8. The Difference between Man's Nature and His Free Choice
9. Foreknowledge and Predestination Are Predicated of God, Not Properly but by a Similitude of Temporal Things
10. When God Is Said to Know in Advance and to Predestine Sins or Death or the Punishments of Men or Angels, It Is to Be Understood from the Contrary
11. It Can Be Established by Divine and Human Authority That God's Predestination Concerns Only Those Who Are Prepared for Eternal Happiness
12. The Definition of Predestination
13. What Can Be Inferred from the above Judgment of Saint Augustine
14. Collected Attestations of Saint Augustine by Which It Is Clearly Proved That There Is but One Predestination and It Refers Only to the Saints
15. By What Kind of Expressions God Is Said to Have Foreknowledge of Sins since They Are Nothing, or to Predestine the Punishments of Them Which Likewise Are Nothing
16. No Nature Punishes Nature and the Punishments of Sinners Are Nothing Other Than Their Sins
17. Why God Is Said to Have Predestined Punishments although He Neither Makes nor Predestines Them
18. The Error of Those Whose Thinking on Predestination Disagrees with That of the Holy Fathers Has Grown Out of an Ignorance of the Liberal Arts
19. Eternal Fire
Epilogue
Bibliography