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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Washington :
Catholic University of America Press,
2012.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
- 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.