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Anselm of Canterbury and the desire for the Word /

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 sep...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sweeney, Eileen C. (Eileen Carroll) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : Catholic University of America Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.