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Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works - ia801301.us.archive.org
ANSELM, monk and abbot of Bec in Normandy, and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109, was an author whose writings have been of profound importance to the development of theology in Western Christianity. He was born in Aosta in northern Italy in 1033.
Anselm of Canterbury (1033—1109) - PhilArchive
Saint Anselm was one of the most important Christian thinkers of the eleventh century. He is most famous in philos-ophy for having discovered and articulated the so-called “on-tological argument;” and in theology for his doctrine of the atonement.
ANSELM
Anselm was born in 1033 at Aosta in rnard. Both his parents were of noble rank, and his mother, Ermenburga, was a kinswoman of the counts of Maurienne, from whom the house of Savoy, who now sit on the throne of are des
ANSELM - homepages.uc.edu
1969. Complete translations of Anselm’s major works may be found in Jasper Hopkins and Herbert Richardson, Anselm of Can-terbury Vols. 1–3 (New York: Edwin Mellen Press 1976), as well as in Brian Davies and Gillian R. Evans
MP_C33.qxd - Fordham University
For, given that all desire only what they think is good, anyone can easily avail himself of the following opportunity: he can at any time turn the mind’s eye to look for the source of the things that are good – things that one would not want unless one judged them to be good.
The Ontological Argument
Therefore, Lord, you who grant understanding to faith, grant that, insofar as you know it is useful for me, I may understand that you exist as we believe you exist, and that you are what we believe you to be. Now we believe that you are something than which nothing greater can be thought.
St. Anselm of Canterbury - savannahcathedral.org
St. Anselm of Canterbury Italian-born theologian and philosopher, known as the father of Scholasticism, a philosophical school of thought that dominated the Middle Ages.
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