Anselm s Doctrine of Freedom and the Will

Anselm s Doctrine of Freedom and the Will
Author: G. Stanley Kane
Publsiher: New York : Edwin Mellen Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1981
Genre: Religion
ISBN: UOM:39015012909944

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Pays special attention to Anselm's theory of the will and the three ways in which he used the term. This study also explores Anselm's definition of freedom and the relationship between grace and freedom.

Anselm s Doctrine of Freedom and the Will

Anselm s Doctrine of Freedom and the Will
Author: Gordon Stanley Kane
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1981
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0889469768

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Anselm on Freedom

Anselm on Freedom
Author: Katherin Rogers
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2008-06-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780199231676

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Can human beings be free and responsible if there is an all-powerful God? Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) offers viable answers to questions which have plagued religious people for at least two thousand years. Katherin Rogers examines Anselm's reconciliation of human free will and divine omnipotence in the context of current philosophical debates.

Anselm on Freedom

Anselm on Freedom
Author: Katherin Rogers
Publsiher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2008-06-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780191552410

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Can human beings be free and responsible if there is a God? Anselm of Canterbury, the first Christian philosopher to propose that human beings have a really robust free will, offers viable answers to questions which have plagued religious people for at least two thousand years: If divine grace cannot be merited and is necessary to save fallen humanity, how can there be any decisive role for individual free choice to play? If God knows today what you are going to choose tomorrow, then when tomorrow comes you have to choose what God foreknew, so how can your choice be free? If human beings must have the option to choose between good and evil in order to be morally responsible, must God be able to choose evil? Anselm answers these questions with a sophisticated theory of free will which defends both human freedom and the sovereignty and goodness of God.

Anselm

Anselm
Author: Sandra Visser,Thomas Williams
Publsiher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2009-02-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780195309386

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Sandra Visser and Thomas Williams offer a brief, accessible introduction to the life and thought of St. Anselm (c. 1033-1109). Anselm, who was Archbishop of Canterbury for the last 16 years of his life, is unquestionably one of the foremost philosopher-theologians of the Middle Ages. Indeed he may have been the greatest Christian thinker in the 800 years between Augustine and Aquinas. His keen and rigorous thinking earned him the title 'The Father of Scholasticism.' The influence of his contributions to ethics and philosophical theology is clearly discernible in figures as various as Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, the voluntarists of the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the Protestant Reformers. The prevalence of self-identified Anselmians - and anti-Anselmians - in contemporary philosophy of religion attests to the enduring importance of his approach to the divine nature. Visser and Williams's book falls into two main parts. The first will elucidate Anselm's metaphysics, concluding with an examination of Anselm's account of truth, which serves as a capstone for his metaphysical system. The second part focuses on Anselm's theory of knowledge. Topics considered include Anselm's general account of cognition and his odd but compelling theory of language-acquisition and the role it plays in discourse about the divine. The third section of the book is devoted to the moral life. Anselm's account of the foundations of ethics is philosophically of great interest, the authors show, because it effectively combines insights that contemporary philosophers have thought to be antithetical. In the fourth and last section, they turn to Anselm's philosophical explorations of Christian doctrine, including Redemption, the Trinity, and the Incarnation. They show how Anselm puts his metaphysical system to work in establishing the coherence of Christian doctrine and explain how his philosophical theology rests on his theory of knowledge.

The Cambridge Companion to Anselm

The Cambridge Companion to Anselm
Author: Brian Davies,Brian Leftow
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2004-12-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521002052

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Three Philosophical Dialogues

Three Philosophical Dialogues
Author: Anselm
Publsiher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2002-03-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781603840804

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In these three dialogues, renowned for their dialectical structure and linguistic precision, Anselm sets out his classic account of the relationship between freedom and sin--its linchpin his definition of freedom of choice as the power to preserve rectitude of will for its own sake. In doing so, Anselm explores the fascinating implications for God, human beings, and angels (good and bad) of his conclusion that freedom of choice neither is nor entails the power to sin. In addition to an Introduction, notes, and a glossary, Thomas Williams brings to the translation of these important dialogues the same precision and clarity that distinguish his previous translation of Anselm's Proslogion and Monologion, which Professor Paul Spade of Indiana University called "scrupulously faithful and accurate without being slavishly literal, yet lively and graceful to both the eye and ear.

Cur Deus Homo

Cur Deus Homo
Author: Saint Anselm
Publsiher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-12-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781725293694

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Cur Deus Homo ("Why God was a Man") was written from 1095 to 1098 once Anselm was already archbishop of Canterbury and discusses the Incarnation. It takes the form of a dialogue between Anselm and Boso, one of his students. Its core is a purely rational argument for the necessity of the Christian mystery of atonement, the belief that Jesus's crucifixion was necessary to atone for mankind's sin. This edition also contains a selection of his letters.