Notes on Contributors
Jacob Archambault holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Doctoral Certificate in Medieval Studies from Fordham University. His main research focuses on formal consequence and its development in medieval logic. He currently works as a software engineer in Louisville, KY, USA. For further information on Jacob’s research, visit
Christian Brouwer Ph.D. (2000), is Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Philosophy and Social Sciences Faculty. Besides several studies on Anselm, he co-edited with Odile Gilon, Liberté au moyen âge, (Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2017, Annales de l’institut de philosophie de l’université de Bruxelles).
Montague Brown is Professor of Philosophy at Saint Anselm College, Director of the Institute for Saint Anselm Studies, and Editor of The Saint Anselm Journal. He is author of Freedom, Philosophy, and Faith: The Transformative Role of Judeo-Christian Freedom in Western Thought and Reason, Revelation and Metaphysics: The Transcendental Analogies.
Richard Campbell DPhil (Oxford), was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at The Australian National University. He was author of From Belief to Understanding (ANU, 1976), Rethinking Anselm’s Arguments (Brill, 2018) and A Cosmological Reformulation of Anselm’s Proof That God Exists (Brill, 2022)
Marcia L. Colish Ph.D. (Yale), was Frederick B. Artz Emerita Professor of History at Oberlin College and author of The Mirror of Language: A Study in the Medieval Theory of Knowledge (1968), The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (Brill, 1985) and Peter Lombard (Brill, 1994).
Rachel Cresswell completed her DPhil in Theology in 2020 at the University of Oxford, where she is currently Departmental Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History at the Faculty of Theology and Religion. She has published on Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas and medieval theories of atonement.
John A. Demetracopoulos Ph.D. (2001), is Professor of Byzantine and Scholastic Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Patras, Greece. He is the director of the Linos Benakis Centre for Greek and Latin Philosophical Literature, where he mainly runs the Thomas de Aquino Byzantinus project.
Fr. Emery de Gaál Ph.D., is Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary, Illinois, USA. He has authored, i.a., The Art of Equanimity: A Study on the Theological Hermeneutics of St. Anselm of Canterbury (2002) and O Lord, I seek Your Countenance. Explorations and Discoveries in Pope Benedict XVI’s Theology (2018).
Roberto Di Ceglie Ph.D. (2003 and 2020), is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Pontifical Lateran University (Vatican City). He is author of Aquinas on Faith, Reason, and Charity (Routledge 2022) and God, the Good, and the Spiritual Turn in Epistemology (Cambridge University Press 2023).
Timothy Farrant completed his DPhil in Theology & Religion at Pembroke College, Oxford. He has interests in medieval cultural history, historical theology, and practical theology. He has recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the States and is currently working on a monograph for Durham University IMEMS Press.
Riccardo Fedriga is Professor of History of Ideas at the University of Bologna. He has published several articles and books on epistemology, philosophy of mind and action in medieval thought, including Safeguarding Free Will: William Ockham, Walter Chatton, and Richard Kilvington on the Will (2022) and Willing and Understanding, with Monika Michalowska (Brill, 2023),
Alastair R.E. Forbes is a Ph.D. researcher in the Department of History at Durham University. His research focusses on the presentation of knighthood and social order within monastic thought and texts in the years c. 1050–1150.
Christian Göbel Ph.D. (Phil.), Ph.D. (Theol.), is Professor of Philosophy at Assumption University in Worcester, MA (USA). He has written and edited nine books and numerous articles on a wide range of topics in philosophy and theology, including (in German) Philosophy and Ecumenism: Anselm of Canterbury and the Logic of Christianity (Munich: Utz, 2015).
Barbara Hargreaves Ph.D. in History at Durham University (2021), is a registered nurse and midwife.
Alisa Kunitz-Dick (Ph.D., Cantab, 2013), is an independent scholar and teachers in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. She specialises in early medieval metaphysics and is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, including in Ibn Gabirol (Avicebron): Latin and Hebrew Philosophical Traditions (Brepols, 2023).
Roberto Limonta is a Ph.D. student at the University of Salerno and a Non-Stipendiary Subject Expert in Medieval Philosophy at the University of Parma. He is the editor of Pier Damiani, Sull’onnipotenza divina (Milan 2020) and author of Il demone sottile. Scienza e mito dell’intelligenza diabolica (Milan 2023).
Ian Logan Ph.D. (1987), is Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. He is author of Reading Anselm’s Proslogion: The History of Anselm’s Argument and Its Significance Today (Ashgate, 2009; Routledge, 2016) and a contributor to S. Bullivant & M. Ruse (eds.), The Cambridge History of Atheism (CUP, 2021).
Jürgen Ludwig Scherb Ph.D., taught Philosophy at the University of Munich from 2000–2012. He currently teaches Catholic Religion and Philosophy at the European School of Munich. He is the author of Anselms philosophische Theologie (Kohlhammer, 2000).
Michael Vendsel Ph.D. (2014), teaches Humane Letters at Great Hearts Academy and serves as an adjunct professor of philosophy for Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas.
Bernard J.D. van Vreeswijk Ph.D. (2022), is minister of the Protestantse Kerk in Nederland in The Hague. He has written his Ph.D. thesis (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and several articles on Anselm and his concepts of justice and satisfaction.
Maria Leonor Xavier Ph.D. (1994), is Senior Associate Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. She is author of: Three Questions on God (LAP, 2016); “The Presence of Saint Anselm in André do Prado’s Horologium Fidei.” The Saint Anselm Journal V.17, n. 2 (2022), 87–102.
Hiroko Yamazaki Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Bunkyo University (Tokyo) since 2023. Her publications include ‘The Cyclic Structure of St. Anselm’s Prayer to Mary’, Catholic Studies, No. 84 (the Theological Society of Sophia University, Tokyo, 2015) and ‘Anselm and the Problem of Evil’, Anselm Studies, vol. 2 (Kraus International Publications, 1988).