Anselm of Canterbury and the desire for the Word / Eileen C. Sweeney.

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.

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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.

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