Petrus Aureolus’ Teaching on Predestination

Abstract

This article examines the teaching on predestination of the noted scholastic philosopher and theologian Petrus Aureolus, who lived during the first half of the fourteenth century. The author demonstrates that this teaching was quite novel for the Latin theological tradition, at the center of which lies the conception of a possible obstacle in the path of the workings of grace (obex gratiae). The article also takes into account the formal structure of Aureolus’ teaching, the ways and arguments with which it was constructed, together with the logistics employed by the opponents of Aureolus in their own proofs and counter-proofs to the work of Aureolus

Keywords

• OBEX GRATIAE
• БЛАГОДАТЬ
• ЗАСЛУГИ
• PETRUS AUREOLUS
• PREDESTINATION
• OBSTACLES TO THE WORKINGS OF GRACE
• GRACE
• MERITS