Anselm of Canterbury and the Desire for the WordSweeney's study offers a comprehensive picture of Anselm's thought and its development, from the early, intimate, monastically based meditations to the later, public, proto-scholastic disputations |
Contents
The Coincidence of Opposites | 1 |
Persuasion and the Narrative of Longing | 13 |
Physical Separation and Spritual Union | 38 |
Linguistic Analysis Method and Pedagogy | 74 |
Language Straining toward God | 110 |
Exploring Division and Unity | 175 |
6 Uniting God with Human Being and Human Being with God | 245 |
From Meditatio to Disputatio | 328 |
Conclusion Reason Desire and Prayer | 369 |
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