TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Goebel, Bernd
T1  - … ad quantam destructionem religionis vertatur haec concessio destinationis. Drei Schriften Ralph von Battles über theologische Probleme der Willensfreiheit: Einleitung, Edition und Übersetzung
N2  - An edition, translation and analysis of three short texts by Lanfranc’s
student Ralph of Battle (1040-1124), an intimate of Saint Anselm, dedicated to
theological problems concerning human free will: Quare deus hominem fecit, De
paradiso et inferno, and Sententia beati Ieronimi de libero arbitrio. In them,
Ralph – probably following Saint Augustin – raises three main questions: Why
did God create human beings knowing that they would sin? Why did he not
create human beings without the ability to sin? And, given divine foreknowledge
and predestination, can human beings really be held responsible for their sins?
His answers to these queries are compared to those put forward by Saint Anselm,
Gilbert Crispin and authors associated with the school of Laon. Interestingly, one
of the two passages attributed to Jerome which Ralph uses to spell out the value
of our ability to sin is actually from Pelagius (Pseudo-Jerome). This, however, is
not to say that Ralph is a Pelagian.
KW  - Battle, Ralph
KW  - Willensfreiheit
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0295-opus4-16878
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0295-opus4-16878
SP  - 1
EP  - 34
ER  -