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INDEX 417–18; proximate vs. remote, 404–5, 413–14 accidents: 35–37, 72; as related to immutability, 35–37; God has none, 35–37, 72, 226 composites: 24–25, 223; all things in time and place are composites, 29–32, 106, 108 Achilles: 132 action vs. passion: 130–31 advantage/the advantageous (see also confirmation of the good angels: 115, 165, 180–81, 208–9, 268–69 happiness): 177–78, 191, 194, 371, 389, 391–93 craftsman: 11, 17, 19, 100, 384, 412; analogous to God as Creator, 17–19; disanalogous to God as Creator, 19 agent vs. patient: 130–31 angel created part by part (thought experiment): 188–95 creatures: changeable, 38, 40, 44; appetite, bodily/carnal: 155, 330, 333, different levels of dignity, 10, 40–41; do not exist in an unqualified sense, 37–38, 421; exist from God, 11, 13–15, 20–21; exist through God, 9–11, 13–15, 20–21; imitate the Word, 40–41; made by God, 13–17; made from nothing, 15–17; not nothing before they were made, 17; sustained in existence by God, 20 335, 384, 391–93 Augustine: vii, viii, 2, 45, 81, 100, 224,
235, 249 baptism: 332, 333, 354, 358–59, 375–76, 383–87 Bec: vii–ix, 213, 245 belief (see also faith): necessary for understanding, 81, 215–16, 218, 237; vs. belief in, 70–71 Cur Deus Homo, circumstances of composition: x, 238–39, 329 Boethius: definition of eternity in, death of Christ: 130, 253–60, 35n.; definition of person in, 72n.
298–304, 306–8, 310–11, 319–21 Boso: 245–329 bringing about: 397–406 debt owed to God: 261–62, 278–79, 282, 285–87, 294, 303, 307, 319–20, 323, 324, 329, 330–31, 338–41, 343–44, 346, 410 'can' and 'cannot', signification of:
84–85, 129–32, 187–90, 315–17 devil: 115, 123, 125, 160, 167–212 cause: 169–70, 412–15; efficient, passim, 229, 248–53, 269–70, 275–76, 277–78, 282–84, 298, 303, 12–13, 211, 400, 404–5, 412–13,
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Gaunilo: viii, 99–116 God: as Truth, ix; brings good out of 324–25, 372, 391; cannot be reconciled with God, 325; had no just claim on humanity, 251–53 evil, 266; cannot be thought not to exist, 82–83, 105–13; cannot sin, 84–85, 190, 263–64, 316, 362, 396; creatures exist through him, 9–11, 20–21; does not exist from nothing or through nothing, 11–13; does not have but is his qualities, 23–24, 88; exists from himself, 36; exists in an unqualified sense, 37–38, 92; exists through himself, 9–10,12–13, 36; freedom of, 147, 164–65, 263–64; good through himself, 7–8, 21; great through himself, 8, 21; greater than can be thought, 90; the Holy Spirit, see Spirit; has no accidents (in the strict sense), 35–36; has no beginning or end, 25–26, 34–35, 93, 105,
112; Lord and Ruler of all, 73; made creatures from nothing, 15–17; not a body, 23, 37, 84; not composed of the three persons, 222–24; the only God, 73, 226; only object of prayer and worship, 73; percipient, 84; relation to time and place, 28–35, 88–89; the reward of those who love him, 67–68; the Son, see Word; source of goodness, 7–8, 83, 94–98, 170; source of greatness, 8; sustains creation, 20; utters creatures before he makes them, 17–20; whatever it is better to be than not to be, 22–23, 83 dialecticians: 217
'do': 396–400 elements: 14 eternity: definition in Boethius, 35n.; of God: 24, 26, 30–35, 37–38, 89, 91–93, 95, 234–35, 365–68, 374; of other eternal things, 88–89 evil: in the will, 181–82, 210–11, 331–37; is nothing, 183–87, 210, 335–37, 370; is sometimes something, 210, 335–36, 371 existence of God: proof from existence, 9–10; proof from goodness,
7–8; proof from greatness, 8; proof from levels of dignity, 10–11; proof from "that than which a greater cannot be thought," 81–82, 105–13 faith: 214–18, 381–87; in what is incomprehensible, 62–63; living vs. dead, 71, 376 fall: x, 79, 167–212 passim, 268, 269–73, 295; angelic foreknowledge of, 202–5; of human nature, 274; rejoicing over another's, 271–72 foreknowledge of God: 147, 203, 361–74 forgiveness: 261–63, 278, 286, 287, grace: xi, 83, 115, 147, 149, 150, 289, 308, 323, 353, 358, 359, 384, 385, 387, 409–10 179, 204, 246, 257, 292–93, 324, 339–342, 346, 352, 354, 358, 372–94; bestowed on the Church,
freedom: 115, 147–212 passim, 299–300; and divine foreknowledge, 361–74; and salvation, 368–69; definition of freedom of choice: 151, 164, 369; divisions of, 164–65; purpose of, 150–51; relation to divine grace, 147, 374–94 happiness (see also advantage/the advantageous): 66–69, 94–98, 177, 191–95, 277–79, 282, 285–88, 386, 392; human beings created for
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injustice: 136, 182–83, 191, 196–98, happiness, x, 79, 239, 255, 261, 284, 291, 311, 392; of God, 7, 89, 91–92, 93, 96 202, 210–11, 329–36, 354–55, 358, 370–71, 379, 384–85, 412, 415–16 'harden': 355, 373, 374, 377, 385, Jesus (see also Incarnation,Word): 253, 411–12 342–43, 413; does not possess ignorance, 304–5; impeccability of, 298–300; name designates a person, 231 heaven/heavenly city: 179, 250, 270, 272, 274–76, 283, 284, 294, 308, 310–11, 317, 324, 346, 358, 369, 386 Hector: 132
Henry I, King of England: xi Herluin: viii Holy Spirit: see Spirit honor of God: 264–67, 293, 303, John the Baptist: 320, 345, 412 justice: 135–41, 194–99, 329, 333, 376; definition of, 139–40, 369, 391; God's, 23–24, 85–88, 177, 263–65, 284 Lambeth Fragments, purpose of: x, 319–20, 336, 392
hope: 70, 97, 246, 279, 280, 284, 287, Lanfranc: vii–viii, ix 'lead into' (inducere): 170, 201, 297, 375, 383, 385 355, 373 Lincoln,Abraham: 121
Lost Island: 102, 105, 107–8, 110 love: as designating God the Holy immanence of God in creation:
20–21, 28 immortality of the soul: 69, 301 immutability of God: 14, 24, 35–36, Spirit, 53–58, 94; necessary for living faith, 71 40, 315–16, 366–68 impassibility of God: 84, 85, 88, 253, 418 marriage: 321, 409 matter: 13–15 memory: as designating God the Incarnation: x, 213–59 passim; not fitting for Father or Holy Spirit, 228–30, 297–98; unity of person, not of nature, 227–28 Father, 53 mercy of God: 84–88, 182, 230, 248, incomprehensibility: of God, 62–63; 252, 262–63, 279, 284, 286–87, 289, 309, 324, 335, 374, 377–80, 385, 410, 411 of God's goodness, 85, 88; of God's knowledge or utterance of creation, 45; of God's knowledge or utterance of himself, 63 Monologion: circumstances of its composition, vii–viii, 1–2; meaning of the title, 76; original title, 75 ineffability of the Trinity: 46, 49; does not prevent true conclusions about God, 62–64 monothelitism: 314 infants: 69, 331–32, 337–38, 346, necessity: 292–93, 312–18, 361–70, 349–50, 352–59, 375, 377, 379, 383, 387 395–96; antecedent vs. subsequent, 317–18, 362–64
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punishment: 68–69, 86–88, 130–31, Nile (image for Trinity): 232–34 nothing: in what sense creatures were 205–9, 250–52, 262–68, 277–78, 283, 286, 298, 309, 320, 324, 334, 336, 341, 343, 345, 347, 349, 353, 355, 370, 371, 380, 384–85, 387, 392, 415 made "from nothing," 15–17; in what sense nothing exists before or after God, 26–28;"Nothing comes from nothing," 15; signification of 'nothing', 16–17, 184–87, 415–16 rational natures, perfect number of:
267–76 omnipotence of God: 7, 67, 73, 84–85, 88, 96, 234, 246, 250, 254, 256, 259, 302, 304 reason of faith (ratio fidei): vii–viii, x,
75, 215, 237, 245, 247, 309 omnipresence of God: 20–21, 28 On the Incarnation of the Word: circumrecompense: 261–62, 266–67,
276–79, 281–82, 284, 286, 288, 292–95, 303–4, 310, 324, 330, 331, 338–39, 341, 350, 353, 386–87 stances of composition, ix–x original sin: 318, 329–359 passim 'ought' and 'ought not', signification rectitude of will (see also justice):
135–41, 261–62, 377–83; bestowed by God, 150–51, 255, 340–41, 343, 392; God cannot take it away, 159–60 of: 129–32, 321–22, 408–9 painter/painting: 19, 40, 248, 296–97, 332; illustration of the difference between existing in the understanding and existing in reality, 82,
99–100, 111; incompetent painters portray Jesus as ugly, 246–47 redemption: 245–326 passim; cannot be accomplished by non-divine person, 249, 293, 346 relations: in the Trinity, 46, 50, 55, 60, perseverance: 115, 171–75, 179, 217, 219, 235; some do not imply mutability, 35 208–9, 269, 392 person: 72; definition of, in Boethius, relatives: 9, 21–22, 235, 420 resurrection of the dead: 290–91 Roscelin of Compiègne: ix–x, 72n.; every individual human being is a person, 217; God as one, 2, 72, 235; God as three (see also Trinity), 72, 213–36 passim; has distinguishing characteristics along with a nature, 231, 330 213–36 Sabellius: 221
Peter Abelard: ix place: 28–34 power to sin: 147–48, 299 predestination: 367, 373–74 Proslogion: circumstances of its comScripture: authority of, viii, 1, 218,
225, 275, 324, 382; seed of right willing, 381–83; study of, ix, 115, 216–17; truth of, 325–26 sense, interior and exterior: 126–27 simplicity of God: 22, 24–25, 37, 92, position, viii, 75; meaning of the title, 76; original title, 75 223–24, 226, 234–35
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126–27; of the will, 123–24; supreme truth, 133–34 slavery to sin: ix, 148–49, 161–63, 252; = inability not to sin: 162
'something', sense of: 415–16 soul (=rational mind): immortal, understanding: as designating God the Son, 53; of false things, 99, 101, 103, 110–11; vs. thinking, 99, 103, 108–9 68–69; key to understanding God, 64–65; made for loving God; mirror and image, 65; most excellent creature, 64–65; Urban II, Pope: x, 213, 237–38, 297 utterance (see also Word, words):
17–19; three kinds, 17–19; in God is the same as understanding; of creatures within the divine reason, 17–20 Spirit (God the Holy Spirit): and Scripture, 382; as great as the Father and Son, 55, 57–58; breathed out, 57–58; Creator, 57; essence, etc., of the Father and Son, 58; mutual love of the Father and Son, 54–58, 94, 235; neither begotten nor unbegotten, 56–57; not a son, 56; not created, 57; proceeds from the Father and the Son, 55, 94; properly called Spirit, 57–58; role in virginal conception, 347, 351;"spirated,"
57n.; teaches, 342 Virgin Mary: 231, 309, 311–14, 316–17, 338–39, 341–49, 351 virginal conception: 295–97, 309, 329–59 passim weakness in the will: 156–59 'will', various senses of: 157–59, 259, 333–34, 388–93, 410–12 will for happiness (will for advansubstance: in what sense God is a tage): 177–78, 191–94, 205, 389–93 substance, 36; individual vs. universal,
37; one in God, 72, 235; three in God, 72, 235 will for justice (will for rectitude):
177, 194–95, 389–93 substantially: what can be said subWilliam II, King of England: ix Word (God the Son): 94; assumed stantially of God, 21–23, 224 human nature (not a human person), 217, 230–31, 317, 319; begotten by the Father, 43, 48–49; born from the Father, 47–48, 53, 235; coeternal with the Father, 39, 42, 44; consubstantial with the Father, 39–40, 43, 44; Creator, 45; creatures always exist in him, 44–45; distinguishing characteristics, 47–50, 53, 218–20; essence of the Father, 50–52; exists through himself, 50–51; image of the Father, 43, 46; not a Word of creation, 40–44; not created, 39; one, not several, 39–40; temptation: 153, 155–57, 159–60, 170, 201, 274, 283, 373, 378 three courses of events: 341–42, 351–52 time: 28–34, 144 transcendence of God: 20–21 transformation of the world: 272–74 truth: ix, 119–44 passim; definition of,
134–35; God as Truth, ix, 119; of action, 124–26; of opinion, 123; of statements, 119–23; of the being of things, 128–29; of the senses,
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41, 53; meaning/signification when applied to God, 36, 63–64; natural, 18–19; natural vs. conventional, 18n.; vehicle of thought and knowledge, 17–19 only of the Father, 61–62; signified by 'understanding', 53; Son (not Daughter), 48–49, 236; the truth of creatures, 40–41; the truth of the Father, 52, 94 words: 17–19; born from the memory, 53; likenesses of things, 18–19,
Ranging from such early treatises as the Monologion (a work written to show his monks how to meditate on the divine essence) and the Proslogion (best known for its advancement of the so-called ontological argument for the existence of God) to Anselm's three dialogues on such metaphysical topics as the relationship between freedom and sin, and late treatises on the Incarnation and salvation, this collection of Anselm's essential writings will be a boon to students of the history of philosophy and theology, as well as to anyone interested in examining what Anselm calls "the reason of faith."
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