Free Will and Grace: Method and Model in Anselm’s De Concordia

Marcia L. Colish

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Chapter 9 Free Will and Grace

Method and Model in Anselm’s De Concordia

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Page Range:: 217–231

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004716308_011

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As is often noted, Anselm typically avoids explicit quotations from his authorities and the citation of proof-texts, preferring to weave what he takes from his sources seamlessly into his own arguments. Although observing in the De Veritate that prefaces his treatment of free will in De Libertate Arbitrii and De Casu Diaboli that their subjects pertain to the study of Holy Scripture, he cites biblical texts quite sparsely in these works. But in the third part of De Concordia, his final consideration of that topic, Anselm presents a barrage of conflicting biblical texts on free will and grace. This departure from Anselm’s usual method has been noted in passing but never cogently explained. This chapter proposes that Anselm drew on John Cassian as the model for his strategy of argument in De Concordia 3. Wrongly accused of Pelagianism by would-be defenders of the late Augustine, Cassian dismisses the charge, in particular in his Collation 13, exploring the Bible’s variegated positions on grace and free will and explaining how they should be understood against what he regards as Augustine’s tendentious and monocular reading of St. Paul. Recommended specifically in the Rule of St. Benedict and cited as a patristic authority in the early Middle Ages, Cassian was no stranger to monastic writers in Anselm’s day. A comparison between Anselm’s De Concordia 3 and Cassian’s Collation 13 suggests both Anselm’s appropriation of Cassian’s methodology and his simultaneous dependence on and independence from Cassian’s conclusions in working out his own position vis-à-vis Augustine on grace and free will.

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Anselm of Canterbury

Nature, Order and the Divine

丛编： Anselm Studies and Texts, 卷： 8

ISBN:: 9789004716308

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 11 Dec 2024

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Part 1 Monologion and Proslogion

Part 2 The Three Early Dialogues, De Grammatico and De Concordia

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Method and Model in Anselm’s De Concordia

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