| Description |
1 online resource (xxxv, 513 pages). |
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text file |
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Oxford world's classics
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Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvi-xxvii) and index. |
| Contents |
Letter to Archbishop Lanfranc -- Monologion -- Proslogion -- Pro insipiente (On behalf of the fool), by Gaunilo of Marmoutiers -- Reply to Gaunilo -- De Grammatico (Dialogue on literacy and the literate) -- On truth -- On free will -- On the fall of the devil -- On the incarnation of the Word -- Why God became man -- On the virgin conception and original sin -- On the procession of the Holy Spirit -- De concordia (The compatibility of God's foreknowledge, predestination, and grace with human freedom) -- Philosophical fragments. |
| Summary |
After Aquinas, Anselm is the most significant medieval thinker. Utterly convinced of the truth of the Christian religion, he was none the less determined to try to make sense of his Christian faith, and the result is a rigorous engagement with problems of logic which remain relevant for philosophers and theologians even today. This translation provides the first opportunity to read all of Anselm's most important works in one volume. - ;`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 unde. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy, Medieval.
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Philosophy, Medieval. |
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Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
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Theology, Doctrinal. |
| Chronological Term |
Early works to 1800 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Early works.
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| Added Author |
Davies, Brian, 1951-
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Evans, G. R. (Gillian Rosemary)
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. English. 1998 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97121734
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109. Selections. English. 1998. Major works. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 (DLC) 97050479 |
| ISBN |
9780191568312 (electronic book) |
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0191568317 (electronic book) |
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1280762322 |
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9781280762321 |
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0192825259 (Paper) |
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9780192825254 |
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