Anselm / Sandra Visser and Thomas Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Visser, Sandra, 1965-

Contributor:

Williams, Thomas, 1967-

Series:

Great medieval thinkers.

Great medieval thinkers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophers--Biography.

Philosophers.

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

Anselm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sandra Visser and Thomas Williams offer a brief, accessible introduction to the life and thought of Saint Anselm (c. 1033-1109). Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury for the last sixteen years of his life, is one of the foremost philosopher-theologians of the Middle Ages. His keen and rigorous thinking earned him the title ""The Father of Scholasticism,"" and his influence is discernible in figures as various as Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, the voluntarists of the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the Protestant reformers. In part I of this book, Visser and Williams lay out the

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Anselm's Life and Works; Part I: The Framework of Anselm's Thought; 1. The Reason of Faith; 2. Thought and Language; 3. Truth; Part II: God; 4. The Monologion Arguments for the Existence of God; 5. The Proslogion Argument for the Existence of God; 6. The Divine Attributes; 7. Thinking and Speaking about God; 8. Creation and the Word; 9. The Trinity; Part III: The Economy of Redemption; 10. Modality; 11. Freedom; 12. Morality; 13. Incarnation and Atonement; 14. Original Sin, Grace, and Salvation; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M

NO; P; R; S; T; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-029486-8

0-19-530939-1

1-281-82585-9

9786611825850

0-19-971886-5

OCLC:

437092655