Anselm of Canterbury: Nature, Order and the Divine (Anselm Studies and Texts #8)
Description
This volume explores important aspects of the life and writings of Anselm of Canterbury. His is a world in which the created order with its hierarchies of natures and roles manifests a divine order that proceeds from the divine nature.
Individual chapters examine Anselm's understanding of rectitude, truth, justice, and redemption, the relationship of free will and grace and of faith and reason, whether and how we can speak of or reject the divine, Anselm's approach to death, his understanding of the superiority of monasticism in the social and spiritual order, and the role that angels play in his metaphysical and theological arguments.
About the Author
Ian Logan, Ph.D. (1987), is Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. He is the author of Reading Anselm's Proslogion: The History of Anselm's Argument and Its Significance Today (Ashgate, 2009; Routledge, 2016). Alastair R. E. Forbes is a Ph.D. researcher in the Department of History at Durham University. His research focusses on the presentation of knighthood and social order within monastic thought and texts in the years c. 1050-1150.
Other Books in Series
Eadmer of Canterbury: Life, History and Thought (Anselm Studies and Texts #10)
Anselm of Canterbury: Communities, Contemporaries and Criticism (Anselm Studies and Texts #3)
New Research on the Abbey of Le Bec in the Middle Ages: Sources, History, Archaeology (Anselm Studies and Texts #7)
New Readings of Anselm of Canterbury's Intellectual Methods (Anselm Studies and Texts #6)
Anselm and Scripture: The Bible in the Thought of Anselm of Canterbury (Anselm Studies and Texts #9)
A Cosmological Reformulation of Anselm's Proof That God Exists (Anselm Studies and Texts #5)
A Historical Study of Anselm's Proslogion: Argument, Devotion and Rhetoric (Anselm Studies and Texts #2)
Rethinking Anselm's Arguments: A Vindication of His Proof of the Existence of God (Anselm Studies and Texts #1)
