Anselm of Canterbury and the desire for the Word /
Sweeney, Eileen C.
Anselm of Canterbury and the desire for the Word / Eileen C. Sweeney. - Washington : Catholic University of America Press, 2012. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The problem of Anselm: the coincidence of opposites -- The prayers: persuasion and the narrative of longing -- The letters: physical separation and spiritual union -- Grammar and logic: linguistic analysis, method, and pedagogy -- The Monologion and Proslogion: language straining toward God -- The trilogy of dialogues: exploring division and unity -- Uniting God with human being and human being with God -- The later works: from Meditatio to Disputatio -- Conclusion: Reason, desire, and prayer.
Sweeney's study offers a comprehensive picture of Anselm's thought and its development, from the early, intimate, monastically based meditations to the later, public, proto-scholastic disputations. She reveals Anselm as a thinker as relentless in his exposure of ambiguity, paradox, and separation as in his pursuit of certainty, necessity, and unity.
9780813219592 (electronic bk.) 0813219590 (electronic bk.) 0813219582 (cloth ; alk. paper) 9780813219585 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
22573/ctt26094v JSTOR
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109.
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Medieval.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
B765.A84
189/.4
Anselm of Canterbury and the desire for the Word / Eileen C. Sweeney. - Washington : Catholic University of America Press, 2012. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The problem of Anselm: the coincidence of opposites -- The prayers: persuasion and the narrative of longing -- The letters: physical separation and spiritual union -- Grammar and logic: linguistic analysis, method, and pedagogy -- The Monologion and Proslogion: language straining toward God -- The trilogy of dialogues: exploring division and unity -- Uniting God with human being and human being with God -- The later works: from Meditatio to Disputatio -- Conclusion: Reason, desire, and prayer.
Sweeney's study offers a comprehensive picture of Anselm's thought and its development, from the early, intimate, monastically based meditations to the later, public, proto-scholastic disputations. She reveals Anselm as a thinker as relentless in his exposure of ambiguity, paradox, and separation as in his pursuit of certainty, necessity, and unity.
9780813219592 (electronic bk.) 0813219590 (electronic bk.) 0813219582 (cloth ; alk. paper) 9780813219585 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
22573/ctt26094v JSTOR
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109.
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Medieval.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
B765.A84
189/.4