New book explores medieval philosopher’s contribution to current debate
Unpleasant Affairs That Please Us: Admonition and Rebuke in the Letter Collections of the Archbishops of Canterbury, 11th and 12th Centuries
March 23, 2014 By
From the Norman Conquest in 1066 up to the famous “murder in the cathedral”2 in 1170, six archbishops of Canterbury ruled over the English church…
They Hasten toward Perfection: Virginal & Chaste Monks in the High Middle Ages
January 1, 2014 By
As perennial Christian ideals, virginity and chastity were frequent themes in medieval religious discourse. Male religious were frequently virgins and were expected to cultivate chastity; however, women not men were usually the focus of such discussions. But some monastic writers did draw on those models when considering their own spirituality, and it is worth knowing how they were understood and enlisted in those instances.
Saint Anselm of Canterbury and Charismatic Authority
September 28, 2013 By
The early career of Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1033-1109) provides an opportunity to explore the operation of charismatic authority in a monastic setting.
Abelard’s Legacy: Why Theology is not Faith Seeking Understanding
March 17, 2013 By
In this paper I will challenge the common definition of the theological task as faith seeking understanding, where the faith of a tradition commandeers the critical enquiry of the theologian.
Reality and Truth in Thomas of York: Study and Text
March 10, 2013 By
The investigation is conducted through a study of opposites into which being is divided. These opposites are principally the one and the many, potency and act, truth and falsity.
Why God Became Man: Saint Anselm, Cur Deus Homo, and a Religious Challenge in Anglo-Norman England
September 22, 2011 By
Anselm’s great contributions to the history of ideas have been the province of philosophers and theologians, while historians have concentrated on his actions as monk, abbot, and Archbishop of Canterbury during the Gregorian Reform.
Nicholas of Cusa’s Intellectual Relationship to Anselm of Canterbury
July 31, 2011 By
Nicholas of Cusa’s Intellectual Relationship to Anselm of Canterbury Hopkins, Jasper The Catholic University of America Press, Washington, D.C. (2006) Abstract During this sexcentenary of the birth of Nicholas of Cusa, there is an almost ineluctable temptation to super-accentuate Cusa’s modernity—to recall approvingly, for example, that the Neokantian Ernst Cassirer not only designated Cusa “the […]
Music in the Time of Saint Anselm
March 21, 2011 By
Music in the Time of Saint Anselm Cox, Donald R. (Saint Anselm College) The Saint Anselm Journal 2.1 (Fall 2004) Abstract The 11th century gave birth to a new artistic impulse as it also gave rise to original and systematic treatises about faith. St. Anselm, innovative theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury, contemplated the qualities of faith […]
St. Anselm of Canterbury and Romano Guardini
November 30, 2010 By
St. Anselm of Canterbury and Romano Guardini de Gaál, Ph.D., Father Emery (University of St. Mary of the Lake) The Saint Anselm Journal 2.1 (Fall 2004) Abstract Well before World War I, Romano Guardini had felt the deleterious impact of the Kantian critique of religion. As a reaction to Kant and the then prevailing Neo-Scholasticism, […]
Feudal Imagery or Christian Tradition? A Defense of the Rationale for Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo
November 29, 2010 By
Feudal Imagery or Christian Tradition? A Defense of the Rationale for Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo Cohen, Nicholas (Boston College) The Saint Anselm Journal 2.1 (Fall 2004) Abstract Anselm of Canterbury’s Cur Deus Homo (CDH) is one of the most important theological approaches to the issues of Incarnation and Atonement which may be found in the […]
Faith and Reason in Anselm: Two Models
November 29, 2010 By
Faith and Reason in Anselm: Two Models Brown, Montague (Saint Anselm College) The Saint Anselm Journal 2.1 (Fall 2004) Abstract In the preface to his Proslogion, Anselm gives titles to the two works known best as the Monologion and the Proslogion. These latter titles are for convenience; the full title of the Monologion is An […]
Human Free Will in Anselm and Descartes
November 29, 2010 By
Human Free Will in Anselm and Descartes Berman, Sophie (St. Francis College) The Saint Anselm Journal 2.1 (Fall 2004) Abstract Freedom is a central theme in Descartes’s philosophy, where it is linked to the theme of the infinite: it is through the freedom of the will, experienced as unlimited, that the human understands itself to […]
Anselm’s Proslogion: The Desire for the Word
October 9, 2010 By
Anselm’s Proslogion: The Desire for the Word Sweeney, Eileen C. (Boston College) The Saint Anselm Journal 1.1 (Fall 2003) Abstract The paper confronts an important tension in Anselm’s project in the Proslogion that mirrors a conflict in how the Proslogion has been read. Some readers see the Proslogion as the successful search for necessary and […]
God’s Personal Freedom: A Response to Katherin Rogers
October 9, 2010 By
God’s Personal Freedom: A Response to Katherin Rogers Staley, Kevin M. (Saint Anselm College) The Saint Anselm Journal 1.1 (Fall 2003) Abstract This paper defends the thesis that God need not have created this world and could have created some other world. God’s freedom, as it pertains to creating, is the freedom of indifference. Many […]
Anselm on God’s Perfect Freedom
October 9, 2010 By
Anselm on God’s Perfect Freedom Rogers, Katherin A. (University of Delaware) The Saint Anselm Journal 1.1 (Fall 2003) Abstract According to the Catechism, “…God created the world according to his wisdom. It is not the product of any necessity whatever,…it proceeds from God’s free will; he wanted to make his creatures share in his being, […]
Anselm on the Cost of Salvation
October 6, 2010 By
Anselm on the Cost of Salvation Leftow, Brian Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 6, no. 1 (1997) Abstract Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo (CDH) discusses a number of objections to the Christian claim that God became incarnate and atoned for human sin. One objection is this: if God is omnipotent and wise and offers humanity salvation, […]
Did Scotus Embrace Anselm’s Notion of Freedom?
October 4, 2010 By
Did Scotus Embrace Anselm’s Notion of Freedom? Langston, Douglas Medieval Philosophy and Theology, vol. 5, no. 2 (1996) Abstract In his “Duns Scotus and the Experience of Human Freedom,” Joseph Incandela outlines three contemporary interpretations of Duns Scotus’s understanding of freedom. Much of the article is devoted to explaining William Frank’s view that Scotus embraces […]
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