A Historical Study of Anselm's Proslogion

Argument, Devotion and Rhetoric
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42320-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Anselm Studies and Texts

In A Historical Study of Anselm's Proslogion, Toivo J. Holopainen offers a new overall interpretation of Anselm’s Proslogion by providing a historical explanation for the distinctive combination of argument and devotion that this treatise exhibits. Part 1 clarifies Anselm’s outlook on the central arguments in the treatise by offering a careful analysis of the ‘single argument’, the discovery of which Anselm announces in the preface. Part 2 reassesses the conflicting views about faith and reason in the immediate background of the Proslogion (the Eucharistic controversy, the publication of the Monologion). Part 3 examines the Proslogion from a rhetorical perspective and argues that applying the ‘single argument’ in a devotional setting constitutes a subtle attempt to affect the audience’s ideas about method in theology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

J Holopainen, Toivo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Theologenbiographien, Religiöse Führer

Über Autor(innen)

Toivo J. Holopainen, Th.D. (1995), University of Helsinki, holds the title of Docent at that university. He has published on medieval philosophy and theology, including the book Dialectic and Theology in the Eleventh Century (Brill, 1996).