Ratramnus

Ratramnus (also: Rathramnus ) of Corbie († 868 ) was a Benedictine monk and theologian non-conformist in the Abbey of Corbie.

About his life little is known. He is best known as the author of a treatise on the Eucharist, De corpore et sanguine Domini liber, in which he contradicts the doctrine of transubstantiation, which represented his contemporary from the same abbey, Radbertus Paschasius in a similar business. Ratramnus sought to reconcile science and religion, while Radbertus emphasized the miracle. They agreed that Christ is present in the Eucharist - According Radbertus by a miracle and real, according Ratramnus however, symbolically and in faith. Ratramnus ' views were not adopted, its author fell into oblivion, and was condemned as the book in 1050 at the synod of Vercelli as heresy, it was considered a work of John Scotus Eriugena in the order of Charlemagne. During the Reformation found the book of renewed interest, it was published in 1532 and translated immediately. It had an impact, especially in England, where the reformer Thomas Cranmer said that it was Ratramnus that ultimately convinced him of the falsity of the doctrine of transubstantiation.

At the request of Charles the Bald Ratramnus wrote two books, the relative position in the debate on the election: In De praedestinatione Dei, he represented the doctrine of predestination. The fate of Gottschalk Orbais not stopped him from supporting the anti Hincmar of Reims views on the accuracy of expression trina Deitas. In his time Ratramnus was known for his four-volume font Contra Graecorum opposita ( 868 ), an estimated contribution to the controversy between Western and Eastern Church, which had been triggered I. 867 by the encyclical Photios. An edition of De corpore et sanguine Domini was published in 1859 in Oxford. Ratramnus also wrote the Epistola de Cynocephalis in which it occurs for the Cynocephali, people with dogs' heads, to be regarded as people ( Patrilogia Latina 121: 1153-56 ).