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Anselm of Canterbury

Anselm of Canterbury OSB (/ˈænsɛlm/; 1033/4–1109), also called Anselm of Aosta (French: Anselme d'Aoste, Italian: Anselmo d'Aosta) after his birthplace and Anselm of Bec (French: Anselme du Bec) after his monastery, was an Italian[7] Benedictine monk, abbot, philosopher, and theologian of the Catholic Church, who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109. After his death, he was canonized as a saint; his feast day is 21 April. He was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by a papal bull of Pope Clement XI in 1720.

"Saint Anselm" redirects here. For other uses, see Saint Anselm (disambiguation).

Saint

Anselm

OSB

Catholic Church

Canterbury

Canterbury

1093

21 April 1109

Lanfranc

Ralph d'Escures

Abbot of Bec

4 December 1093

Anselme d'Aoste

c. 1033
Aosta, Kingdom of Burgundy, Holy Roman Empire

21 April 1109
Canterbury, England

Canterbury Cathedral

Gundulph
Ermenberge

Monk, prior, abbot, archbishop

21 April

Catholic Church
Anglican Communion[1]
Lutheranism[2]

Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of the Church
(Doctor Magnificus)

4 October 1494
Rome, Papal States
by Pope Alexander VI

His mitre, pallium, and crozier
His books
A ship, representing the spiritual independence of the Church.

Proslogion
Cur Deus Homo

Medieval philosophy

Western philosophy

Scholasticism
Neoplatonism[3]
Augustinianism

Metaphysics, theology

As Archbishop of Canterbury, he defended the church's interests in England amid the Investiture Controversy. For his resistance to the English kings William II and Henry I, he was exiled twice: once from 1097 to 1100 and then from 1105 to 1107. While in exile, he helped guide the Greek Catholic bishops of southern Italy to adopt Roman rites at the Council of Bari. He worked for the primacy of Canterbury over the archbishop of York and over the bishops of Wales but, though at his death he appeared to have been successful, Pope Paschal II later reversed papal decisions on the matter and restored York's earlier status.


Beginning at Bec, Anselm composed dialogues and treatises with a rational and philosophical approach, which have sometimes caused him to be credited as the founder of Scholasticism. Despite his lack of recognition in this field in his own time, Anselm is now famed as the originator of the ontological argument for the existence of God and of the satisfaction theory of atonement.

De Grammatico

Monologion

Proslogion

De Veritate

De Libertate Arbitrii

De Casu Diaboli

, also known as De Incarnatione Verbi[41]

De Fide Trinitatis

(1675), Sancti Anselmi ex Beccensi Abbate Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi Opera, nec non Eadmeri Monachi Cantuariensis Historia Novorum, et Alia Opuscula [The Works of St Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury and Former Abbot of Bec, and the History of New Things and Other Minor Works of Eadmer, monk of Canterbury] (in Latin), Paris: Louis Billaine & Jean du Puis (2d ed. published by François Montalant in 1721; republished with errors by Jacques Paul Migne as Vols. CLVIII & CLIX of the 2nd series of his Patrologia Latina in 1853 & 1854)

Gerberon, Gabriel

Ubaghs, Gerard Casimir [Gerardus Casimirus] (1854), (in Latin and French), Louvain: Vanlinthout & Cie

De la Connaissance de Dieu, ou Monologue et Prosloge avec ses Appendices, de Saint Anselme, Archevêque de Cantorbéry et Docteur de l'Église [On Knowing God, or the Monologue and Proslogue with their Appendices, by Saint Anselme, Archbishop of Canterbury and Doctor of the Church]

Ragey, Philibert (1883), Mariale seu Liber precum Metricarum ad Beatam Virginem Mariam Quotidie Dicendarum (in Latin), London: Burns & Oates

Deane, Sidney Norton (1903), , Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co. (Republished and expanded as St. Anselm: Basic Writings in 1962)

St. Anselm: Proslogium, Monologium, an Appendix in Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilon, and Cur Deus Homo with an Introduction, Bibliography, and Reprints of the Opinions of Leading Philosophers and Writers on the Ontological Argument

Webb, Clement Charles Julian (1903), , London: Methuen & Co. (Translating the Proslogion, the "Meditations", and some prayers and letters)

The Devotions of Saint Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury

Schmitt, Franz Sales [Franciscus Salesius] (1936), "Ein neues unvollendetes Werk des heilige Anselm von Canterbury [A New Unfinished Work by St Anselm of Canterbury]", Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters [Contributions on the History of the Philosophy and Theology of the Middle Ages], Vol. XXXIII, No. 3 (in Latin and German), Munster: Aschendorf, pp. 22–43

Henry, Desmond Paul (1964), The De Grammatico of St Anselm (in Latin and English), South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press

Charlesworth, Maxwell John (1965), St. Anselm's Proslogion (in Latin and English), South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press

Schmitt, Franz Sales [Franciscus Salesius] (1968), S. Anselmi Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi Opera Omnia [The Complete Works of St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury] (in Latin), Stuttgart: Friedrich Fromann Verlag

; et al. (1969), Memorials of St. Anselm (in Latin and English), Oxford: Oxford University Press

Southern, Richard W.

Ward, Benedicta (1973), The Prayers and Meditations of Saint Anselm, New York: Penguin Books

Hopkins, Jasper; et al. (1976), Anselm of Canterbury, Edwin Mellen (A reprint of earlier separate translations; republished by Arthur J. Banning Press as The Complete Philosophical and Theological Treatises of Anselm of Canterbury in 2000) (Hopkins's translations available here .)

[1]

Fröhlich, Walter (1990–1994), The Letters of Saint Anselm of Canterbury (in Latin and English), Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications

Davies, Brian; et al. (1998), Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Williams, Thomas (2007), Anselm: Basic Writings, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing (A reprint of earlier separate translations)

Fides quaerens intellectum

and Saint Anselms

Other Anselms

various places named in Anselm's honor

Saint Anselm's

Cur Deus Homo

Gregorian Reform, and clerical celibacy

Cluny Abbey

Investiture Controversy

Canterbury–York dispute

Saint Anselm of Canterbury, patron saint archive

Slavery in the British Isles

Scholasticism

Existence of God

(1852), Course of the History of Modern Philosophy, Vol. II, Lecture IX: Scholastic Philosophy, New York: D. Appleton & Co. (translated from the French by O.W. Wight, reprinted 1869)

Cousin, M. Victor

Anselm of Canterbury, , (Deane translation)

Cur Deus Homo 

Anselm of Canterbury, Monologion (in Latin), ()

Schmitt edition

Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion (in Latin), ()

Schmitt edition

Anselm of Canterbury, De Veritate (in Latin), ()

Schmitt edition

Sweeney, Eileen C. (2012), Anselm of Canterbury and the Desire for the Word, Washington D.C.: , ISBN 978-0-8132-2873-0

The Catholic University of America Press

Lewis, David, , Canterbury Historical and Archaeological Society, retrieved 30 June 2015, a treatment of the locations around the cathedral honoring St Anselm, including the icon of Our Lady of Bec, Anselm, and Lanfranc donated by the abbey of Bec in 1999 on the 50th anniversary of its refounding.

"St Anselm (1033–1109) The most eminent thinker and theologian of his age"

, The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Vol. II, Pt. II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1843, pp. 852–858

"Saint Anselm"

St Anselm's works at and the Latin Library (in Latin)

Vicifons

St Anselm's works at ; the Christian Classics Ethereal Library; and the Online Library of Liberty (in English)

Wikisource

at Prof. Jasper Hopkin's homepage. (in English)

St Anselm's works and related essays

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Works by Anselm of Canterbury

, Medieval Sourcebook, New York: Fordham University, 1998

"Philosophers' Criticisms of Anselm's Ontological Argument for the Being of God"

Lewis E 5 De casu diaboli (On the Fall of the Devil) at OPenn

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Académie Saint Anselme d'Aoste