Peter Aureol on predestination : : a challenge to late medieval thought / / by James L. Halverson.

• Superior document: Studies in the history of Christian thought ; Volume 83
• VerfasserIn: Halverson, James L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston ;, Köln : : Brill,, [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christian thought ; Volume 83.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (199 pages)

By 1300 theologians had established a consensus position concerning predestination stating that God predestines without regard to human causes, but reprobates with regard to sin. In the fourteenth Century this consensus was shattered, first by those arguing that God also predestines on account of human causes, and then by those who asserted that God does neither with regard for human causes. The first part of the book examines the theology of Peter Aureol, who first broke with the consensus position on predestination. The second part traces the impact of his theology on late Medieval thought. Previously overlooked, Peter Aureol's unique doctrine of predestination and the impact it had on late Medieval and Reformation thought is a crucial chapter in the history of Western theology.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / James L. Halverson -- Acknowledgements / James L. Halverson -- Introduction / James L. Halverson -- Chapter One The Semantics of Simplicity / James L. Halverson -- Chapter Two The Semantics of Voluntarism / James L. Halverson -- Chapter Three Qui Homines Vult Salvos Fieri : Predestination and the Doctrine of General Election / James L. Halverson -- Chapter Four General Election and Anti-Pelagianism at Oxford, 1317-1339 / James L. Halverson -- Chapter Five General Election vs. Double-Particular Election / James L. Halverson -- Chapter Six Predestinarian Pluralism in the Later Middle Ages / James L. Halverson -- Conclusion / James L. Halverson -- Works Cited / James L. Halverson -- Index of Subjects / James L. Halverson -- Index of Names and Places / James L. Halverson -- Studies in the History of Christian Thought / James L. Halverson.