The Major Works
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THE MAJOR WORKS
Includes Monologion, Proslogion, and Why God Became Man Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Brian Davies and Gillian Evans 'For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that — I may understand. For I believe this also, that "unless I believe, I shall not understand"?
Does God exist? Can we know anything about God's nature? What is truth? Do human beings have freedom of choice? Can they have such a freedom in a world created by God? * *
"These questions, and others, were ones which Anselm of Canterbury (c.1033-1109) took very seriously. Although utterly convinced of the truth of the Christian religion, he was determined to try to make sense of his faith. For Anselm, the doctrines of Christianity are an invitation to question, to think, and to learn.
Anselm's intellectual rigour and clarity of expression place him afnong the greatest of theologians and philosophers. This edition brings together ee the first time in one volume all his most important works. b
° INTRODUCTION
* TEXTUAL'NOTE
* BIBLIOGRAPHY
° CHRONOLOGY
* INDEX .
Cover illustration: St Anselm giving books to Countess Matilda of Tuscany and to monks, fro the Littlemore
Anselm Manuscript, twelfth century. Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS Auct. D.2.6, fo. 185".
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