Complete Philosophical And Theological Treatises

This is the only complete English edition of the treatises of Anselm of Canterbury, the monastic "father of Scholasticism." In Jasper Hopkins' and Herbert Richardson's philosophically sensitive translations, the volume offers to English readers not only Anselm's treatises but also his important Meditation on Human Redemption and four of his didactic letters. Collectively, these constitute his intellectual writings. Contents: Monologion; Proslogion; Debate with Gaunilo; De Grammatico; On Truth (De Veritate); On Freedom of Choice (De Libertate Arbitrii); The Fall of the Devil (De Casu Diaboli); Two Letters concerning Roscelin; The Incarnation of the Word (De Incarnatione Verbi); Why God Became Man (Cur Deus Homo); Philosophical Fragments; A Meditation on Human Redemption (Meditatio); The Virgin Conception and Original Sin (De Conceptu); The Procession of the Holy Spirit (De Processione); Letters on the Sacraments (De Sacramentis); Foreknowledge, Predestination, Grace, and Free Choice (De Concordia). An appendix provides a scholarly bibliography of resources on Anselm.

An expanded version of the translator’s Anselm: The Basic Writings, The Complete Treatises incorporates new translations of works omitted from that volume (most notably, De grammatico) in addition to selected letters and prayers of philosophical interest. The only such collection translated by a single hand and rendered with attention to terminological consistency across the treatises, it’s the ideal choice for use by students of philosophy and theology.

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Nasir-i Khusraw was a leading Ismaili poet and theologian-philosopher of the Fatimid period whose writings have had a major formative influence on the Ismaili communities of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia. The bulk of his surviving work was produced in exile in a remote mountainous region of Badakhshan where he sought refuge from persecution in his native district of Balkh. This is the first of his doctrinal treatises to be translated into English. Consisting of a series of 30 questions and answers, it addresses some of the central theological and philosophical issues of his time from an Ismaili perspective, ranging from the creation of the world and the nature of the soul to the questions of human free will and accountability in the afterlife.