Kant demolished the rationalistic arguments of Anselm, Descartes, and others, for the existence of God. |
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Yet, as he shows, it was characteristic and effective in the hands of churchmen like Athanasius, Augustine, Bernard, Anselm, and Calvin. |
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I have argued that Anselm understood God as having created an ordered relationship of beauty and harmony in which human beings lived freely in obedience to God. |
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He teaches theology at the Pontifical Atheneum of St. Anselm in Rome. |
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Anselm of Canterbury, eleventh-century theologian, monk and Church hierarch, is arguably the major figure in the theological road from Augustine to Aquinas. |
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As archbishop, Anselm maintained his monastic ideals, including stewardship, prudence, and proper instruction, prayer and contemplation. |
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The next day, William ordered the bishops not to treat Anselm as their primate or as Canterbury's archbishop, as he openly adhered to Urban. |
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The bishops sided with the king, the Bishop of Durham presenting his case and even advising William to depose and exile Anselm. |
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The nobles siding with Anselm, the conference ended in deadlock and the matter was postponed. |
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One college in particular, Saint Anselm College, has been home to numerous national presidential debates and visits by candidates to its campus. |
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At the age of fifteen, Anselm desired to enter a monastery but, failing to obtain his father's consent, he was refused by the abbot. |
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Believing his sinful behavior was responsible, he summoned Anselm to hear his confession and administer last rites. |
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Anselm insisted that he journey to Rome for this purpose but William would not permit it. |
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In the end, a ceremony was held to consecrate Anselm as archbishop on 4 December, without the pallium. |
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A letter survives of Anselm responding to Lanfranc's criticism of the work. |
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Anselm employs Aristotelian logic to affirm the existence of an absolute truth of which all other truth forms separate kinds. |
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In De Casu Diaboli, Anselm further considers the case of the fallen angels, which serves to discuss the case of rational agents in general. |
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It takes the form of a dialogue between Anselm and Boso, one of his students. |
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Anselm argues that, owing to the Fall and mankind's fallen nature ever since, humanity has offended God. |
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The enormity of the offence led Anselm to reject personal acts of atonement, even Peter Damian's flagellation, as inadequate and ultimately vain. |
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In its 5th chapter, Anselm reprises his consideration of eternity from the Monologion. |
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Anselm's students included Eadmer, Alexander, Gilbert Crispin, Honorius Augustodunensis, and Anselm of Laon. |
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Anselm then slept, awoke returned to Aosta, and then retraced his steps before returning to speak to his mother. |
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Systematic theologians include the Scholastic philosophers Anselm, Albertus Magnus, and Thomas Aquinas. |
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Anselm intervened with some of the doubters, emphasising the religious importance of their loyalty to Henry. |
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Under William Rufus this arrangement had collapsed, the King and Archbishop Anselm had become estranged and Anselm had gone into exile. |
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Matters escalated, with Anselm going back into exile and Henry confiscating the revenues of his estates. |
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Anselm threatened excommunication, and in July 1105 the two men finally negotiated a solution. |
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After Richard's death his loyalty was remarked upon by Anselm of Canterbury. |
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Around this time, in 1720, Clement XI proclaimed Anselm of Canterbury a Doctor of the Church. |
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Most contemporary analytic philosophers know Anselm of Canterbury primarily through the famous ontological argument of his Proslogion. |
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William then tried to personally bestow the pallium to Anselm, an act connoting the church's subservience to the throne, and was again refused. |
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He charged Anselm with having given him insufficient knights for the campaign and tried to fine him. |
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Although Anselm retained his nominal title, William immediately seized the revenues of his bishopric and retained them til death. |
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From Lyons, Anselm wrote to Urban, requesting that he be permitted to resign his office. |
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Anselm arrived in Rome by April and, according to his biographer Eadmer, lived beside the pope during the Siege of Capua in May. |
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Eadmer credited Anselm with restraining the pope from excommunicating him, although others attribute Urban's politic nature. |
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Henry invited Anselm to return, pledging in his letter to submit himself to the archbishop's counsel. |
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Once in England, Anselm was ordered by Henry to do homage for his Canterbury estates and to receive his investiture by ring and crozier anew. |
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Meanwhile, Anselm publicly supported Henry against the claims and threatened invasion of his brother Robert Curthose. |
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On Michaelmas in 1102, Anselm was finally able to convene a general church council at London, establishing the Gregorian Reform within England. |
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Henry supported Anselm's reforms and his authority over the English church, but continued to assert his own authority over Anselm. |
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In 1103, then, Anselm consented to journey himself to Rome, along with the king's envoy William Warelwast. |
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After this ruling, Anselm received a letter forbidding his return and withdrew to Lyons to await Paschal's response. |
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From his deathbed, Anselm anathematized all who failed to recognize Canterbury's primacy over all the English church. |
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William's greatest desire was for Anselm to be removed from office. |
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Had Anselm been consecrated by an archbishop, he would have been under pressure to profess his obedience, compromising Bec's financial and ecclesiastical independence. |
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Once Gundulph had entered a convent, Anselm, at age 23, left home with a single attendant, crossed the Alps, and wandered through Burgundy and France for three years. |
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She did not wish to be a nun and appealed to Anselm for permission to marry Henry, and the Archbishop established a council at Lambeth Palace to judge the issue. |
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Raising the stakes in the conflict, Henry seized Flambard's lands and, with the support of Anselm, Flambard was removed from his position as bishop. |
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Anselm continued to agitate for reform and the interests of Canterbury. |
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At the Council of Bari in October, Anselm delivered his defence of the Filioque and the use of unleavened bread in the Eucharist before 185 bishops. |
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Anselm returned to England from exile in 1100 having heard Urban's pronouncement, and informed Henry that he would be complying with the Pope's wishes. |
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The cleric's support of Robert would have caused great trouble but Anselm returned before establishing any other terms than those offered by Henry. |
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Anselm stuck firmly to the letter of the papal decree, despite Henry's attempts to persuade him to give way in return for a vague assurance of a future royal compromise. |
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Although Anselm denied belief in Mary's Immaculate Conception, his thinking laid two principles which formed the groundwork for that dogma's development. |
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Anselm held a council at Lambeth Palace which found that Henry's beloved Matilda had not technically become a nun and was thus eligible to wed and become queen. |
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As in his earlier works, Anselm instead held that Adam's sin was borne by his descendants through the change in human nature which occurred during the Fall. |
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Anselm also obtained a resolution against the British slave trade. |
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Beginning at Bec, Anselm composed dialogues and treatises with a rational and philosophical approach, sometimes causing him to be credited as the founder of Scholasticism. |
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Fearing the difficulties that would attend being named to the position in opposition to the king, Anselm avoided journeying to England during this time. |
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