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Saint Anselm was one of the most important Christian thinkers of the eleventh century. He is most famous in philosophy for having discovered and articulated the so-called “ ontological argument ;” and in theology for his doctrine of the atonement.
Anselm: Ontological Argument for God’s. Existence. One of the most fascinating arguments for the existence of an all-perfect God is the ontological argument. While there are several different versions of the argument, all purport to show that it is self-contradictory to deny that there exists a greatest possible being.
At Bec, Anselm made his first great intellectual contribution: he attempted to prove the existence of God. He set out his famous ontological argument in his Proslogion . God is "that which nothing ...
Jul 25, 2021 · July 25, 2021. Saint Anselm (A.D. 1033–1109) was an Italian monk, philosopher, and theologian who served as Archbishop of Canterbury for 16 years. He’s most famous for his spirited defenses of the incarnation and belief in God (though you might remember him from a brief reference in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade!).
Saint Anselm of Canterbury, (born 1033/34, Aosta, Lombardy—died April 21, 1109, possibly at Canterbury, Kent, Eng.; feast day April 21), Founder of Scholasticism. Anselm entered the Benedictine monastery at Bec (in Normandy) in 1057 and became abbot in 1078.
Anselm held that the death of the God-human ( Christ) on the cross was the only rationally intelligible way in which sinful humankind could have been reconciled with God. Atonement is made possible through Christ, by whose infinite merits humanity is purified in an act of cooperative re-creation.
Anselm is the most important Christian theologian in the West between Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.
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