Augustine's views influenced the predestination controversy

Following the death of Augustine of Hippo in 430, opponents of his theology attacked his teaching that God elects the blessed to salvation and the damned to condemnation. The Synod of Orange II (529) adopted a modified version of Augustine's views. Controversy over these questions erupted again in the ninth century when the monk Gottschalk of Orbais (c. 804-c. 869) reasserted double predestination. He was opposed by Rabanus Maurus (c.776 or 784-856) and Hincmar of Rheims (806-882) who took the position of the Synod of Orange II.