Anselm of Canterbury and the desire for the Word / Eileen C. Sweeney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sweeney, Eileen C. (Eileen Carroll)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109.

Anselm.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sweeney's study offers a comprehensive picture of Anselm's thought and its development, from the early, intimate, monastically based meditations to the later, public, proto-scholastic disputations.

Contents:

""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Notes on the Text""; ""Introduction. The Problem of Anselm: The Coincidence of Opposites""; ""1. The Prayers: Persuasion and the Narrative of Longing""; ""2. The Letters: Physical Separation and Spiritual Union""; ""3. Grammar and Logic: Linguistic Analysis, Method, and Pedagogy""; ""4. The Monologion and Proslogion: Language Straining toward God""; ""5. The Trilogy of Dialogues: Exploring Division and Unity""; ""6. Uniting God with Human Being and Human Being with God""

""7. The Later Works: From Meditatio to Disputatio""""Conclusion. Reason, Desire, and Prayer""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 3 79-394 ) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8132-1959-0

OCLC:

811732111