Research Catalog

Title

The Anselmian approach to God and creation / Katherin A. Rogers.

Author

Rogers, Katherin A.

Publication

Lewiston : E. Mellen Press, [1997], ©1997.

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Description

vii, 261 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in the history of philosophy ; v. 44

Uniform Title

Studies in the history of philosophy (Lewiston, N.Y.) ; v. 44.

Subjects

• Religion > Philosophy
• Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109
• Creation > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500
• God (Christianity) > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

I. The Anselmian Approach: The Systematic Nature of Medieval Philosophy of Religion -- II. The Traditional Doctrine of Divine Simplicity -- III. Anselm On Praising a Necessarily Perfect Being -- IV. The Medieval Approach to Aardvarks, Escalators and God -- V. The Irrelevance of Original Sin In Augustine's Doctrine of the Will -- VI. Anselm's Indeterminism -- VII. Anselm and His Platonic Predecessors on the Origin of Evil -- VIII. Eriugena and Anselm on God's Causal Omniscience -- IX. St. Augustine on Time and Eternity -- X. Eternity Has No Duration -- XI. Middle Knowledge versus Knowledge of Vision -- XII. Omniscience, Eternity, and Freedom -- XIII. How a Perfect Being Creates: Anselm's Theistic Idealism.

ISBN

• 0773486682
• 088946300X (ser.)

LCCN

97002068

OCLC

• 36241697
• ocm36241697

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries