The Cambridge Companion to Anselm
Brian Davies
Theology
Chapters 72
- 1. Eadmer, Life of St. Anselm (Vita Anselmi), ed. R. W. Southern (Oxford: ≈ 3 min
- 2. R. W. Southern, Saint Anselm: A Portrait in a Landscape (Cambridge: ≈ 3 min
- 3. William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum, ed. R. A. B. Mynors, ≈ 3 min
- 8. Herluin was buried at Bec. ≈ 6 min
- 37. Historia ecclesiastica, ed. M. Chibnall (6 vols.; Oxford: Clarendon Press, ≈ 2 min
- 56. Letter 20 (S iii: 126). ≈ 2 min
- 61. Commentaria in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos, ed. E. M. Buytaert: (Cccm 11), 118–19. ≈ 2 min
- 64. Summa Theologiae 1a, 2,1; cf. 1a, 2,3 on the five "other" ways of proving ≈ 1 min
- 65. William of Auxerre, Summa Aurea, i.1, A. Daniels, Quellenbeitr¨age ≈ 69 min
- 1. Mon. 31 (S i: 49–50); 68–69 (S i: 78–84); De Ver. 2 (S i: 178–79); 4 (S i: ≈ 4 min
- 17. Anselm consistently sounds this theme in the prayers, and it is a key ≈ 4 min
- 24. The Rule of St. Benedict, Prologue; in Western Asceticism, ed. Owen ≈ 4 min
- 26. See Benedicta Ward, "Introduction," The Prayers and Meditations of ≈ 4 min
- 35. Cur Deus Homo, passim. ≈ 4 min
- 54. Anselm exempts Christ's human nature from the necessity for such edu- ≈ 5 min
- 55. Here I make allowances for prodigies such as Mozart, who seem to ≈ 5 min
- 58. For example, in response to the teacher's contention that sin does not ≈ 5 min
- 64. For example, he asks whether humans were part of God's original cre- ≈ 5 min
- 67. For example, in De Veritate, when the student appeals to Aristotelian– ≈ 5 min
- 68. The teacher offers the final definitions in De Veritate (11–12; S i: ≈ 9 min
- 96. Thus Martin Grabmann overestimates Anselm's adherence to patris- ≈ 71 min
- 10. Actually the relevant biblical verse has the divine speaker using plural ≈ 1 min
- 13. See Jasper Hopkins, A Companion to the Study of St. Anselm ≈ 67 min
- 1. Likewise, these activities do not require that Anselm had in mind a ≈ 3 min
- 2. In what follows, citations to texts of Anselm refer by volume and page ≈ 3 min
- 3. See especially Augustine's De Magistro and De Doctrina Christiana. ≈ 3 min
- 4. Anselm regularly calls the significate of a sign its signification (sig- ≈ 21 min
- 45. Modern discussions bypass Anselm's (T2) and (T3) by specifying the ≈ 1 min
- 46. Near the end of De Ver. 2, Anselm makes some misleading remarks ≈ 1 min
- 47. See also De Ver. 10 (S i: 190). ≈ 52 min
- 1. See S. Knuuttila, Modalities in Medieval Philosophy (London and New ≈ 14 min
- 54. See, for example, D. Walton, "Logical Form and Agency," Philosophical ≈ 3 min
- 62. For agent and patient in Aristotle's natural philosophy in general, see S. ≈ 13 min
- 1. If some F-thing is superior to every not-F thing, do not say ≈ 3 min
- 2. If some F-thing is superior to every not-F thing, say that God ≈ 7 min
- 3. do not say that God has any non-perfection, and ≈ 3 min
- 4. do say that God has every perfection. ≈ 57 min
- 6. It might seem to follow from this that God's greatness requires Him to ≈ 4 min
- 7. This will involve speaking as if God had many attributes. This is mis- ≈ 4 min
- 8. If Anselm wants only intrinsic descriptions to fall out of (4), he is assum- ≈ 8 min
- 17. It also incorporates the claim that God has beliefs. While it is usual to ≈ 1 min
- 18. Phil. Frag., Exordium. ≈ 1 min
- 20. Phil Frag., Exordium. ≈ 20 min
- 1. We can think of something existing which cannot be thought not ≈ 3 min
- 2. Such a thing would be greater than something which can be thought ≈ 3 min
- 3. So something than which nothing greater can be thought cannot be ≈ 3 min
- 4. So something than which nothing greater can be thought cannot be ≈ 120 min
- 1. Whenever we quote a text we give a reference to the critical edition ≈ 14 min
- 45. De Ver. 12 (S i: 193–94; Dialogues, 23). ≈ 3 min
- 46. De Ver. 12 (S i: 194; Dialogues, 23). ≈ 3 min
- 47. We call it "enriched" because it makes explicit certain requirements ≈ 3 min
- 49. Because the enriched descriptive definition is silent about what an ≈ 156 min
- 1. References to Anselm: all references are to the critical edition of ≈ 3 min
- 2. J. R. Sheets is engaged, at least partly, in the attempt to dispel ≈ 3 min
- 3. Anselm's ethical views have received very little attention from con- ≈ 3 min
- 4. For the sake of simplicity, I treat consequentialist and eudaimonistic ≈ 3 min
- 5. For Scotus's ethical theory, see John Hare, God's Call: Moral Realism, ≈ 7 min
- 13. Anselm does not explicitly speak of participation in the Monologion; ≈ 4 min
- 15. At least bracketing certain considerations having to do with natural ≈ 11 min
- 31. Though, of course, medieval eudaimonists will explain what is ≈ 3 min
- 32. Sheets ("Justice in the Moral Thought of St. Anselm") emphasizes the ≈ 3 min
- 33. The same point also emerges from the passage quoted above from De ≈ 3 min
- 34. I presented earlier versions of this chapter at Purdue University, ≈ 72 min
- 1. Excellent overviews of On the Incarnation of the Word and On the Pro- ≈ 3 min
- 2. See the sources mentioned in William E. Mann, "Augustine on Evil and ≈ 3 min
- 3. For another analysis of Anselm's Nile analogy, see Christopher Hughes, ≈ 3 min
- 4. An earlier version of this essay benefited from the criticism of Brian ≈ 67 min
- 1. I. McEwan, Atonement (London: Jonathan Cape, 2001). There is no ≈ 13 min
- 64. For Barth briefly, Dogmatics in Outline (London: SCM Press, 1949), ≈ 1 min
- 66. The phrase is adopted by Richard Swinburne in his own account of ≈ 1 min
- 67. I. Kant, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, trans. T. M. Greene ≈ 1 min
- 68. I am grateful to Brian Davies and Ann Loades for commenting on earlier ≈ 26 min
| Author | Brian Davies |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | Contemporary |
| Categories | Theology · Christian Classics |
| Length | 72 chapters · ≈ 17 h 27 min read |
| Formats | Web Book · PDF |
