'''''Praedestinatus''''' was a treatise composed in Rome during the 5th century, when Pope Sixtus III was the Roman Bishop. The treatise attacks predestinarian beliefs taught by Saint Augustine.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Praedestinatus |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100341657 |access-date=2022-06-25 |website=Oxford Reference |language=en }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Tabbernee |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j2dAY4kKZRgC&dq=Praedestinatus&pg=PA272 |title=Fake Prophecy and Polluted Sacraments: Ecclesiastical and Imperial Reactions to Montanism |date=2007 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-15819-1 |language=en}}</ref> The treatise is composed of multiple refutations of "heresy", one of them being the "predestinationists".<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Augustine and the Praedestinatus: Heresy, Ideology and Reception |url=https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/augustine-and-the-praedestinatus-heresy-ideology-and-reception(a9584685-b459-472b-9af5-98e72a0e10a4).html |access-date=2022-06-25 |website=risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref>
The author of treatise is unknown, but some have suggested him to have been Arnobius the Younger. The writer appears to have semi-Pelagian views, though still criticizing full-Pelagianism.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tertullian : Praedestinatus |url=https://www.tertullian.org/tertullianistae/praedestinatus.htm |access-date=2022-06-25 |website=www.tertullian.org}}</ref>
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{{Italic title}} Category:5th-century Christian texts