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In the prologue to the Monologion and the preface to Cur Deus Homo, Anselm affirms the rational necessity of the most mysterious matters of the faith, including the Trinity and the Incarnation. However, as he develops his understanding of truth as rectitudo in De Veritate and later works, it becomes clear that his understanding of rational necessity is not, to his mind, at all at odds with the free creation of the world, the freedom of our intelligence and choice, and therefore the freedom of truth. This chapter has four parts. The first presents Anselm’s claims for the necessary truths of God’s existence, the Trinity, and the Incarnation. The second examines the texts in which Anselm defines truth as rectitude, and how this moves the central focus from reason as primarily theoretical to reason as moral and aesthetic, which only exists as free. The third considers some texts from his later works, especially De Concordia, in which he affirms the absolute precedence of grace—the free gifts of creation and salvation—to all our endeavors, and how this underlines his notion of free truth. The final part points to passages from his earlier works that support this understanding of truth, indicating the ultimate consistency of Anselm’s thought.

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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

Part 3 Cur Deus Homo

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