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Saturday, 8 April 2006

Qumran and predestination (II)

Here is the conclusion to Chris Petersen’s guest-post on the Qumrancommunity’s doctrine of double predestination:

So where did Qumran get its strong determinism from? Some scholarssuggest the influence of Zoroastrianism. These scholars argue thatduring the exile when the Persians began to dominate, some of thoseJews living in exile assimilated many of the Zoroastrian beliefs into theirsystem, most notably the belief in a dualism between light anddarkness. These Jews then synthesized their high view of God'ssovereignty with this dualism, thus giving birth to the determinism thatfinally reached full bloom in the theological system of the Essenes.

This is of course only a theory. Nevertheless, what I find intriguing isthat the first Christian to formulate a strong doctrine of determinism,Augustine of Hippo, was once part of a religious movement known asManichaeism which had its origins in Persia and also borroweddualistic themes from Zoroastrian religion. Now it is usually assertedthat Augustine's doctrine of predestination arose out of his conflict withPelagius. But I can't help wondering if the dualism he associated with inhis Manichaean days might have provided the basis for this doctrine,which was subsequently developed during the Pelagian controversies.

Now, of course I'm not the first to suggest that Augustine's earlyManichaeism influenced much of his later thought. But it’s worth askingwhether there is a direct connection between belief in a strong dualismin nature, and belief in a fatalistic or deterministic ordering of thatnature. Religious systems that hold to some kind of dualism in naturetend also to have fatalistic and deterministic characteristics. Could thishave been the case with Augustine? Could his dualism have ledultimately to his doctrine of predestination?

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