Prosper of Aquitaine

Prosper of Aquitaine, (c.390–c.460), theologian. Probably a layman from south-western France, Prosper's adult life was spent largely in Provence in the time of the controversies about grace and predestination linked with the names of Augustine, Cassian, and Vincent of Lerins. He was a committed follower of Augustine, but modified his views later to a milder view of predestination. Prosper's extracts from Augustine's works were used by the Council of Orange (529) and his views were very influential in Carolingian theology. Prosper is said to have been the secretary of Leo the Great. He wrote in verse as well as in prose, and his Chronicle, while derivative up to 378, is useful as an account of theological controversies during his own lifetime. Feast: 25 June (in some places 7 July). 

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• Works in P.L., li. 1–868 and in M.G.H., Auctores Antiquissimi, ix (1892), pp. 341–499; E. M. Pickman, The Mind of Latin Christendom (1937), pp. 418–36; O.D.C.C., s.v. Prosper; H.S.S.C., iii. 287