Monologium, Proslogium, and Cur Deus Homo

Fides quaerens intellectum. He knelt, and out of prayer the reasons came.

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About this edition

Saint Anselm of Canterbury, monk of Bec and Archbishop of Canterbury, gave Christian thought a phrase it has never surrendered: faith seeking understanding. This volume gathers his three principal works, and the famous exchange that followed one of them.

The Monologium reasons toward the being of God without appeal to Scripture. The Proslogium follows with the single argument, made in the form of a prayer, that has been debated ever since. To it are joined Gaunilo's In Behalf of the Fool and Anselm's Apologetic in reply. Last comes Cur Deus Homo, Why God Became Man, his account of the Incarnation and the atonement, cast as a dialogue with his pupil Boso.

This Sanctified Souls Press edition presents all four complete and unabridged, in the translations of Sidney Norton Deane and James Gardiner Vose issued together by The Open Court Publishing Company in 1903. The 1903 editorial apparatus is set aside so that Anselm's own text stands alone.

Contents

• Monologium, on the being of God: a preface and seventy-nine chapters
• Proslogium, a discourse on the existence of God: a preface and twenty-six chapters
• Gaunilo's In Behalf of the Fool, with Anselm's Apologetic in answer
• Cur Deus Homo, Why God Became Man: a preface and two books

Details

• Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109), Abbot of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Doctor of the Church
• Translated by Sidney Norton Deane and James Gardiner Vose, The Open Court Publishing Co., 1903
• Four works, complete and unabridged
• Sanctified Souls, Heritage Editions
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 242 pages, cream paper

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