Anselm of Canterbury made to the Church’s theology of deification, and here is the main argument of this essay: there is indeed a theory of deifying humanity in Anselm as well as a uniquely Anselmian …

For theologians like Anselm Stolz, Anselm’s starting point, like his end point, is in theology. He concludes that “faith seeking understanding” means the attempt to “attain a vision of God through an …

Anselm is an Augustinian philosopher and Benedictine monk, who understands, following this tradition, that the more we apply the full capacity of our rational abilities to understand correctly intrinsically …

Anselm, in the Monologion and Proslogion, presents two quite different methods of relating faith and reason. One takes as its point of departure the teachings of the faith, and meditates on their meaning …

Anselm’s God is the sort of creditor who remains invested in the good of the debtor. Hodge’s God, conversely, focuses first and foremost on setting the balance straight, and the relationship between …

Anselm runs through a number of places where truth can be found: grammatical signification, opinion, will, natural objects, sense experience, and the essences of things. He ends up equating truth with …

Anselm addresses this confusion and concludes to the contrary that the person who is unable to sin is freer. The one who has the actual ability not to turn away from justice and rectitude is the one in …

Introduction In the writings of Saint Anselm, we find diverse and what appear to be conflicting accounts of the relationship between God and creaturely acts of sin. In a first set of passages, Anselm teaches …

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Saint Anselm tackles two issues at once in his treatise, both the motive of the incarnation of the Son of God and the mechanism of his redemption of the human race.