Il dibattito sulla predestinazione in età carolingia: uno scavo dei paradigmi e delle trame genealogiche

Abstract

This study offers a reinterpretation of the Carolingian controversy on predestination. The doctrinal positions advanced by the authors involved are categorized into three distinct and opposing theological paradigms: gemino-predestinarianism, grace predestinarianism (or moderate predestinarianism), and the soteriological anti-predestinarianism of John Scottus Eriugena. The analysis further identifies a conflict over authorial genealogies, aimed, on the one hand, at claiming for one’s own side the principal authority – namely Augustine and his theology of grace and free will – and, on the other, at discrediting the opposing genealogies as conduits of heresy.

English title: The Carolingian Debate on Predestination. An Excavation of Paradigms and Genealogical Threads