References in this article to Anselm’s works use the following abbreviations:

All translations are my own.

Critical Edition

• Niskanen, Samu, 2019. Letters of Anselm of Canterbury, Vol. I: The Bec Letters, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Schmitt, Franciscus Salesius, 1936. “Ein neues unvollendetes Werk des hl. Anselm von Canterbury,” Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters Band 33, Heft 3 (1936): 22–43. (Scholar)
• Schmitt, Franciscus Salesius, 1968. S. Anselmi Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi Opera Omnia. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Friedrich Fromann Verlag. (Scholar)

Translations

• Davies, Brian, and G. R. Evans (ed.), 1998. Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Williams, Thomas, 2007. Anselm: Basic Writings, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company. As supplemented by the Translations of Anselm, this is the only English translation by a single hand of all of Anselm’s treatises; it also includes selected prayers and letters and the Meditation on Human Redemption. (Scholar)

Secondary Literature

• Baker, Lynne Rudder, 2013. “Updating Anselm Again,” Res Philosophica, 90: 23–32. (Scholar)
• Burgess-Jackson, Keith, 2014. “Does Anselm Beg the Question?,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 76: 5–18. (Scholar)
• Campbell, Richard, 2018. Rethinking Anselm’s Arguments: A Vindication of His Proof for the Existence of God, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• Davies, Brian, and Brian Leftow (eds.), 2004. The Cambridge Companion to Anselm, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Ekenberg, Tomas, 2016. “Voluntary Action and Rational Sin in Anselm of Canterbury,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 24: 215–230. (Scholar)
• Evans, G. R., 1978. Anselm and Talking about God, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1984. A Concordance to the Works of Saint Anselm, Millwood, NY: Kraus International Publications. (Scholar)
• –––, 1989. Anselm, London: G. Chapman; reprinted 2001, London and New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
• Gasper, G. E. M., and I. Logan (eds.), 2012. Saint Anselm of Canterbury and His Legacy, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies. (Scholar)
• Heathwood, Chris, 2011. “The Relevance of Kant’s Objection to Anselm’s Ontological Argument,” Religious Studies, 47: 345–357. (Scholar)
• Henry, Desmond Paul, 1967. The Logic of Saint Anselm, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Holopainen, Toivo, 1996. Dialectic and Theology in the Eleventh Century, Leiden: E. J. Brill. (Scholar)
• –––,2020. A Historical Study of Anselm’s Proslogion Argument: Argument, Devotion and Rhetoric, Leiden: E. J. Brill. (Scholar)
• Hopkins, Jasper, 1972. A Companion to the Study of St. Anselm, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (Scholar)
• Klima, Gyula, 2000. “Saint Anselm’s Proof: A Problem of Reference, Intentional Identity and Mutual Understanding”, in G. Hintikka (ed.), Medieval Philosophy and Modern Times (Proceedings of “Medieval and Modern Philosophy of Religion”, Boston University, August 25–27, 1992), Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 69–88. [Preprint of Klima 2000 available online] (Scholar)
• Leftow, Brian, 1997. “Anselm on the Cost of Salvation,” Medieval Philosophy and Theology, 6: 73–92. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009. “Anselmian Presentism,” Faith and Philosophy, 26: 297–319. [Leftow 2009 available online.] (Scholar)
• Logan, Ian, 2009. Reading Anselm’s Proslogion: The History of Anselm’s Argument and its Significance Today, Aldershot: Ashgate. (Scholar)
• Mann, William E., 2019. “Anselm on Divine Justice and Mercy,” Religious Studies, 55: 469–485. (Scholar)
• Nash-Marshall, Siobhan, 2012. “Saint Anselm and the Problem of Evil, or On Freeing Evil from the Problem of Evil,” International Philosophical Quarterly, 52: 455–470. (Scholar)
• Oppenheimer, P., and Zalta, E., 1991. “On the Logic of the Ontological Argument,” Philosophical Perspectives 5: 509–529; reprinted in The Philosopher’s Annual: 1991, XIV (1993): 255–275. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007. “Reflections on the Logic of the Ontological Argument,” Studia Neoaristotelica, 4(1): 28–34. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011. “A Computationally-Discovered Simplification of the Ontological Argument,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 89(2): 333–349. (Scholar)
• Plantinga, Alvin (ed.), 1965. The Ontological Argument, Garden City, NY: Anchor Books. (Scholar)
• –––, 1974. God, Freedom, and Evil, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans. (Scholar)
• Rogers, Katherin A., 2007. “Anselmian Eternalism: The Presence of a Timeless God,” Faith and Philosophy, 24: 3–27. [Rogers 2007 available online.] (Scholar)
• –––, 2009. Anselm on Freedom, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012. “Anselm on the Ontological Status of Choice,” International Philosophical Quarterly, 52: 183–198. (Scholar)
• Smith, A.D., 2014. Anselm’s Other Argument, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Southern, R. W., 1990. Saint Anselm: A Portrait in Landscape, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Stone, Jim, 1989. “Anselm’s Proof,” Philosophical Studies, 57: 79–94. (Scholar)
• Special Issue, 2011. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Volume 69. (Scholar)
• Sweeney, Eileen, 2012. Anselm of Canterbury and the Desire for the Word, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press. (Scholar)
• Uckelman, Sara L., 2010. “The Ontological Argument and Russell’s Antinomy,” Logic and Logical Philosophy, 18: 309–312. (Scholar)
• Visser, Sandra, and Thomas Williams, 2008. Anselm (Great Medieval Thinkers), New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Ward, Thomas M., 2018. “Losing the Lost Island,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 83: 127–134. (Scholar)
• Williams, Thomas, 2016. “Anselm’s Quiet Radicalism,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, doi:10.1080/09608788.2015.1047734, [Anselm's%20Quiet%20Radicalism.pdf" target="other">Preprint of Williams 2016 available online] (Scholar)
• –––, 2023. Anselm: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Wolterstorff, Nicholas, 1993. “In Defense of Gaunilo’s Defense of the Fool,” in C. Stephen Evans and Merold Westphal (eds.), Christian Perspectives on Religious Knowledge, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, pp. 87–111. (Scholar)