Saint Anselm Of Canterbury And His Legacy

Synopsis

The Essays Consider The Following: Anselm's Legacy In His Own Lifetime And Amongst The Communities In Which His Living Memory Was Preserved Longest; The Impact Of His Thought In The Twelfth Century; The Rather Different Inspiration His Thought Provided In The Thirteenth And Early Fourteenth Centuries; Anselmian Texts And Their Influence In Vernacular Translation, Notably Middle English; And Twentieth-century Reception Within Roman Catholic, Continental Protestant, And Anglican History And Theology, As Well As The Continued Place Of Anselmian Argument Within Philosophical Circles. Anselm: A Portrait In Refraction / Giles E.m. Gasper And Ian Logan -- Queen Matilda And Anselm's Mary Magdalene / Susanne Schenk -- The Evolution Of Anselm's Letter Collections Until Ca. 1130 / Samu Niskanen -- From Bec To Canterbury: Between Cloister And World, The Legacy Of Anselm, A Personne D'autorité / Véronique Gazeau -- The Students Of Bec In England / Sally N. Vaughn -- Harmony Between Word And World: Anselm Of Canterbury, Aelred Of Rievaulx And Approaches To Language In Twelfth-century Monasticism / Jay Diehl -- Anselm And Hugh Of St. Victor On Freedom And The Will / Judith Dunthorne -- Oro, Deus, Cognoscam Te, Amem Te, Ut Gaudeam De Te : Rhetorical Theology And The Influence Of Anslem On Richard Of St. Victor / Mark Clavier -- Odo Rigaldi And The Assimilation Of St. Anselm's Cur Deus Homo In The School Of The Cordeliers In Paris / Michael Robson -- Truth As Rightness In Anselm Of Canterbury And Henry Of Ghent / Bernd Goehring -- The Development Of Anselm's Trinitarian Theology: The Origins Of A Late Medieval Debate / John T. Slotemaker -- Praying And Thinking With Anselm : The Tractatus De Primo Principio Of Duns Scotus / Volker Leppin -- Anselm's Afterlife And The Middle English De Custodia Interioris Hominis / Margaret Healy-varley -- The Middle English Versions Of Saint Anselm Of Canterbury's Prayers And Meditations / Evelien Hauwaerts -- Was Karl Rahner An Anonymous Anselmian? / Ian Logan -- The Myth Of The Eleventh Century: Hans Blumenberg's Anselm / Bernd Goebel -- The Rediscovery Of Anselm's Appeal To Beauty In Hans Urs Van Balthasar's Theology / Emery De Gaál -- Tractarian Echoes: Michael Ramsey And The Anglican Responses To Anselm Of Canterbury / Giles E.m. Gasper -- St. Anselm On The Goodness Of God / Marilyn Mccord Adams -- Anselm And The Phenomenology Of The Gift In Marcel, Sartre And Marion / Eileen C. Sweeney -- The Reception Of Saint Anselm's Logic In The Twentieth And Twenty-first Centuries / Sara L. Uckelman -- The Cosmontological Argument For The Existence Of God / Martin Lembke. Edited By Giles E.m. Gasper And Ian Logan. Essays Based On Papers Originally Presented At A Conference Held At The University Of Kent, At Canterbury, 22nd-25th April, 2009, Commemorating The Nine Hundredth Anniversary Of Anselm's Death. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Co-published By: Centre For Medieval And Renaissance Studies, Durham University.