Anselm of Canterbury and his Theological Inheritance. By Giles E. M. Gasper. Pp. xvi + 228. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. isbn 0 7546 3911 8. £45
Anselmof Canterbury has always been seen as a scholar of towering intellect and independent thought, to his first biographer (Eadmer) as much as to his last (R. W. Southern). This study of Anselm follows a seductive path in looking for clues to possible Greek patristic influences on Anselm's wo...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 715-716 |
| Review of: | Anselm of Canterbury and his theological inheritance (Aldershot [u.a.] : Ashgate, 2004) (Ward, Benedicta)
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| Summary: | Anselmof Canterbury has always been seen as a scholar of towering intellect and independent thought, to his first biographer (Eadmer) as much as to his last (R. W. Southern). This study of Anselm follows a seductive path in looking for clues to possible Greek patristic influences on Anselm's works, and the author, like others before him, has found this to be a matter for speculation rather than fact. After acknowledging the influence of St Augustine of Hippo, the one Latin Father to whom Anselm himself refers, the author begins with an examination of the availability to Anselm of Greek works in Latin translations in northern France in Anselm's undocumented youth, and especially in the libraries at Bec, where he spent most of his monastic life, and later at Canterbury. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli198 |