Anselm

Sandra Visser, Thomas Williams (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2008
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-530939-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Sandra Visser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Valparaiso University. Thomas Williams is Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies Studies at the University of South Florida.

INTRODUCTION: ANSELMS LIFE AND WORK; PART ONE: THE FRAMEWORK OF ANSELMS THOUGHT; PART TWO: GOD; PART THREE: THE ECONOMY OF REDEMPTION; EPILOGUE

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.2.2009
Reihe/Serie	Great Medieval Thinkers
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 206 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-19-530939-1 / 0195309391
ISBN-13	978-0-19-530939-3 / 9780195309393
Zustand	Neuware