In the 9th century, a Saxon monk named Gottschalk taught what is known today as double predestination. Swedish historian Bengt Hagglund explains it this way: “[Gottschalk] claimed (with some justification) that he found support for his teaching in the writings of Augustine” (p. 153). Hagglund goes on.
“Gottschalk did not say…that certain persons are predestined to evil. What is rather decided beforehand is that the ungodly will receive the punishment which they deserve, just as the righteous will receive eternal life. In both cases, therefore, the right thing is done. …The atonement wrought by Christ applies only to those elected to eternal life” (p. 153).
For more, see:
Double Predestination in the Carolingian Era « The Reformed Reader
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